half the speed cameras installed across roads in the UK are inactive, it has been revealed. Of the 2,838 speed cameras in the UK, just 1,486 are currently changed on. 
A series of flexibility of info requests to the UK’s 45 authorities forces discovered four – Cleveland, Durham, North Yorkshire as well as Northamptonshire – don’t have any type of active cameras at all. Northamptonshire authorities stated they kept camera housings in location to deter potentially speeding drivers.
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Drivers in Staffordshire may be interested to discover that of the county’s 272 cameras, just 14 of them are active, while Derbyshire residents have less than a one in 10 possibility of driving with an active camera, as 10 of the county’s 112 cameras were changed on when authorities responded to enquiries.
The press association investigation that uncovered the data discovered just a third of Scottish cameras are changed on, while those heading to higher Manchester will discover only 24 per cent of installed cameras really working. Conversely, the Metropolitan as well as City of London authorities stated all their cameras were active, as did forces from Nottinghamshire, Suffolk as well as northern Ireland. nine forces were not able or unwilling to respond to the requests.