Safety first or stealth tax?

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Safety first or stealth tax?

Published: 05th March 2008 | Author: Stephen Harvey

Speed cameras have been slammed throughout the UK by politicians and motoring groups who have branded them stealth traps and a tax on drivers.
In 2005, motorists caught by the 6,000 cameras in Great Britain were fined £114 million, with £22 million of that going to the Treasury.

At the time, then Shadow Transport Secretary Alan Duncan fumed: “This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money from motorists.”

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