More info on the M4 cameras - incl. where they will be!

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(sorry if this has already been posted - didn't have time to check!)

A speed enforcement campaign for the M4 motorway in Wiltshire was launched today by Wiltshire & Swindon Safety Camera Partnership.

The partnership started enforcement at seven sites along the 53kms of the M4 motorway in Wiltshire. Stationed on motorway bridges the enforcement vehicles will target those motorists who significantly exceed the national speed limit on motorways and endanger not only their lives but those of other road users.

The criteria for mobile speed enforcement state that for each 1 km length of mobile enforcement site there must be a minimum of two injury collisions, which must involve either fatality or serious injury.

The Wiltshire & Swindon Safety Camera Partnership will be enforcing at seven sites along the Wiltshire stretch of the M4 motorway, all of which comply with the selection criteria for enforcement.

Over the past three years 12% of all Wiltshire's fatalities occurred on the short Wiltshire stretch of the M4 motorway. Figures for the year 2004 show a 24% increase in the number of casualties (this includes fatalities, serious injuries and slight injuries) when compared with those in 1999 on the Wiltshire section of the M4 motorway.

No. of collisions on the Wiltshire section of M4 where people were killed or seriously injured.
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
14 12 19 22 18 26

No. of people killed or seriously injured on the Wiltshire section of M4
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
19 14 28 27 24 29

M4 speed enforcement sites in Wiltshire (Please note that the list below describes the location of the sites and not the direction of enforcement. Enforcement may take place in either direction.):

Approximately 8.3km east of junction 17
Approximately 3.1km east of junction 17
Approximately 8.4km west of junction 16
Approximately 3km east of junction 16
At Junction 15
Approximately 6.9km east of junction 15
Approximately 1.8km west of junction 15