Speed offences top 65,000

SOUTH Yorkshire’s safety camera partnership has dealt with more than 65,000 speeding offences so far in 2022.

Police have backed a national campaign running from October 10 to 31 to change drivers’ behaviour and reduce the number of incidents.

Insp Matt Collings said: “Speed kills, it is a fact. Speed limits are there for a reason and driving a few miles per hour over the speed limit can have fatal and devastating effects on the victims and families of those involved in collisions.

“During the next couple of weeks we will be raising awareness of the dangers of speeding as much as possible and using speed vans and cameras and stopping drivers who we believe to be speeding, to deter, prosecute and educate.”

Tom Finnegan-Smith, chairman of South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership strategic board, added:

“Driving or riding too fast for the road conditions contributes to one third of road collisions.

“Consider the consequences of causing a collision due to travelling at excessive speed. You will have to live with the emotional consequences of deaths or injuries caused to others.”