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Police Scotland this week launched a fortnight’s campaign targeting speeding motorists in the Highlands and Islands – those detected will be educated about the dangers of speeding and the devastating consequences that it can have and where appropriate enforcement action will be taken


By Ian Duncan

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Police speed camera van.
Police speed camera van.

The Road Policing Unit in the Highlands and Islands conduct regular patrols across the region but for the next fortnight the focus will be on detecting speeding motorists.

Those detected will then be educated about the dangers of speeding and the devastating consequences that it can have and where appropriate enforcement action will be taken.

Road Policing (Highlands and Islands) work closely with the North Safety Camera Unit which launched its summer staycation campaign in June with the aim to influence driver behaviour and encourage everyone to “stay within the speed limits this staycation”.

In conjunction with the campaign, the North Safety Camera Unit has embarked on some short term deployments where increased levels of traffic is expected due to the increase in staycations in North Scotland. These deployments will be on the A835, A832 and the A939.

Road policing area commander for the north, Chief Inspector Neil Lumsden, said: “Police Scotland officers attend far too many incidents where people have lost their lives or been seriously injured because of motorists driving in excess of the speed limits.

"Reducing the number of people who are killed and injured on the roads is one of Police Scotland’s top priorities, the speeding campaign is part of a national road safety and road crime calendar where we aim to improve driver and road user behaviour to reduce road casualties through engagement and enforcement.”

Eric Dunion, the unit manager of the North Safety Camera Unit, said: “We have been working closely with our local authority and Police Scotland colleagues to identify locations where we anticipate an increase in traffic due to the increased number of visitors to Scotland this summer.

"These locations would not normally meet the criteria to become a permanent location but the short term deployment scheme gives us the flexibility to be at locations where we believe there will be a change in traffic behaviour.

"We will be enforcing at the locations for a maximum of a month and aim to encourage motorists to improve their driver behaviour and adhere to the speed limits in place. Speed limits are in place for the safety of all road users.”

• For further information on the Safety Camera Unit and enforcement locations please visit here.


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