The National Community Speedwatch Organisation joins-up, shares, and maximises the effective use of speeding offence data recorded by CSW groups across the UK.
Better education is always a smarter solution than stricter enforcement. Drivers are humans too and react with natural resentment to punishment. The vast majority of drivers speed for other reasons than antisocial behaviour.
Speedwatch roadside sessions seemingly appearing randomly is a very important element of surprise that makes drivers never know where and when it's 'safe' to exceed the speed limit. The lack of predictability keeps habitual speeders alert and therefore the speed down.
#PeopleSpeedForAReason : There will always be risks associated with driving. Although these cannot be completely controlled, an employer has the responsibility to do everything reasonably practicable to protect people from harm in the same way as they would in the workplace.
Speeding has become endemic and calls for a paradigm shift in how we tackle it. That shift entails a change in the perception and management of community involvement.As a national organisation, we work to unify all schemes under one banner.
Many UK police forces have expressed their interest in a national initiative based on the CSW Online model. Therefore, we are working to facilitate cooperation by making procedures, training, support and outcomes the same everywhere.
Many people refuse to accept that speed is a factor in serious collisions. Fact is though that very few people have been hurt in collisions between two parked cars. Inappropriate speed and speeding are the reasons people die or are injured for life. Help and support Speedwatch.
Based on a plethora of data and observations, behavioural insight is used when addressing offenders. An inductive approach that combines insights from psychology, cognitive science, and social science with empirically-tested results to discover how humans actually make choices.
CSW Online automatically informs local Neighbourhood Police Officers about scheduled sessions. It also provides live maps of roadside activity to police coordinators.
The aim is to coordinate Speedwatch activity at a national level. By collating offence data nationwide, CSW Online can stop the same driver speeding in different areas of the UK far more effectively.
#SimpleFacts : Speeding mostly will increase the possibility of crashing into another car, pedestrians, animals, or other objects near or on the road itself.
As individuals, the risks for a severe crash might seem small when speeding, but from a societal point of view, there are substantial safety gains when the mean speeds and speed differences on the roads are reduced.
It is the force of the impact created by the velocity of the vehicle mass that demolishes the soft human body. Not the make, age, distraction or anything else that kills. No one has ever been killed by a parked car. It's the moving vehicle's speed that kills.
#DidYouKnow : Department for Transport figures reveal that 63% of all vehicles on the road at 4am are driving too quickly, and with the data suggesting weekends are commonplace for speeding, this suggests drivers are looking to take advantage of emptier roads.
#NotTrue : 'Speedwatch is waging war on motorists.' - a misguided opinion predominently expressed by drivers trying to downplay their own speeding offence.
#FACT : Almost 1/6 UK motorists has been caught speeding in the last 5 years. There are around 35,7mill vehicles on our roads. The total road length is around 245k miles. That's approximately one caught for every 0.04 mile. How many speeders do you think don't get caught?
Why is it necessary, desirable or even allowable to produce vehicles used on public roads capable of reaching speeds that create havoc and kill people when causing unintentional collisions?
