FPN’s Stafford Road (866A/21)
Request
Please provide the number of fixed penalty notices issued to drivers from the Average Speed Cameras at these locations and speeds.
– Stafford Road
– Black Country Route
If there have been no fixed penalty notices could you explain why?
Please provide an explanation on average speed is determined.
There are two ways to calculate speed.
- You can measure the distance from 1 speed camera to another and calculate the speed by using the DISTANCE, SPEED, TIME method.
- You can measure the speed of the vehicle from each camera and divide by the amount of recorded speeds for an average.
What option do the cameras use?
CLARIFICATION
Please provide yearly data since implementation to the latest records you have.
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.