The French government made 800 million euros out of speeding fines the last reported year-that's a lot of money in anyone's currency.
There is a graph of annual fatal accident figures on a website that goes back 20 years or so.
The graph mean trends that the figures for fatals has been declining for those twenty years and the year that speed cameras were introduced is marked.
The trend line continues to decline roughly as before the introduction of cameras.
Due to newer cars having better protection, airbags, stronger passenger cells etc and better safer roads.
Of course the numbnuts in the government claim that it's all due to the speed cameras.
But they would say that wouldn't they?
A retired traffic brigade gendarme who was interviewed recently said that when attending any vehicle crash they had always been instructed to tick the box on the report form marked "excess speed" if the cause of the accident was not immediately obvious.
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