High safety hopes withcameraswitch-on

RoadPeace member Mrs Sumpter said motorists and pedestrians could look forward to safer conditions once the camera alongside the A259 went live.

Sussex Safer Roads Partnership will switch on the camera on Monday, April 23. It will enforce the 30mph speed limit as motorists enter the built-up area along Chichester Road travelling south.

Mrs Sumpter said: 'I very much welcome this camera being here. Everyone seems very aware of the camera and it seems to be slowing down the traffic already.

'RoadPeace's research shows that fixed camera sites are four times more effective than mobile camera sites.

'For traffic which is travelling about 6mph or less above the speed limit, there is a 70 per cent drop in speed. Traffic which is doing 15mph or more above the limit has a 91 per cent drop in speed.'

The camera has been put in by the partnership after 12 injury crashes on its stretch of Chichester Road in three years. Three of the collisions resulted in someone being killed or seriously injured.

Round the clock speed monitoring before the camera was installed showed three out of four vehicles '“ 74 per cent '“ were being driven above the 30mph speed limit.

The camera is bright yellow and is accompanied by several advance warning signs as well as rumble strips across the road at the start of the 30mph zone.