Safe Speed's 'Scrap Speed Cameras Week' launches on Sunday 24th June.

Let's have the facts out on the table.

- Road deaths haven't fallen as expected- Road crash hospitalisations haven't fallen for a decade- Speed camera benefit claims are dominated by a statistical blip- Speeding is endemic, yet only 5% of injury crashes involve ANY speeding vehicle- Speed cameras come with a vast catalogue of adverse side effects.- Department for Transport cancelled their side effects research- The word 'speed' is used officially with multiple overlapping meanings and has clouded the thinking and the debate- Driving too fast is dangerous, but that's not the same as exceeding a speed limit- Driver quality is the foundation of all road safety - but DfT policies are making it worse.- Road safety isn't mainly about physics. It's mainly about road user psychology.

Paul Smith, founder of SafeSpeed.org.uk, said: "We're launching 'Scrap Speed Cameras Week' for one reason and one reason only. Speed cameras are making road safety worse. We absolutely must get rid of them to refocus road safety efforts on the things that matter - not the things that are easy to measure."

"Speed cameras have only been supported by dodgy statistics, wishful thinking and false assumptions. They have failed to make our roads safer and now they must go."

"Safe Speed's 'Scrap Speed Cameras' petition on the 10 Downing Street web site is open until 26th June 2007. It has accumulated more than 25,000 signatures and is the 7th most signed petition out of over 7,600. To sign it now visit:http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scrapcam .

"I'm 100% confident that any proper examination of the facts will be forced to conclude that speed cameras have made our roads more dangerous."

"Speed cameras. We hate them. They don't work to make the roads safer, and they have to go."