SPEEDING TICKETS are raising almost £120 million per annum, according to recent Government statistics. Around two million speeding tickets are issued each year - trebling the number of tickets issued when the Labour Government came to power.
The new figures have triggered a strong reaction from the opposition, who accused the Goverment of using Britain's road users as form of easy financial gain. There are now about 6,000 cameras in England and Wales, compared to just a few hundred when the Labour Government came to power.
More than 28,000 people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for speed cameras to be scrapped.
A spokesman for the Department of Transport said: "Safety cameras are there to save lives, not make money. The best safety camera is the one which takes no fines at all, but succeeds in making everyone slow down."
