“Journalists and the public should be wary of being misled by claims of ‘success’ by the road safety industry. Figures put out by such bodies routinely and deliberately ignore the huge strides made in vehicle safety design, better roads and improved paramedic care. Such factors could be responsible for the majority if not all casualty reduction as demonstrated by similar success in countries where the obsession with speed alone does not exist. They also ignore other factors such as ‘Regression to the Mean’ — a long established statistical phenomenon that accounts for most of the ‘benefit illusion’ wrongly attributed to speed cameras. There is simply no hard evidence of any positive results from speed cameras.”