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Speed trap vans should be bright yellow
What’s the difference between a fixed speed camera and a mobile speed camera? Ever thought about it? Well the answer is in fact quite obvious; ones always painted bright yellow and the other usually isn’t.
Whatever your reason for why might this be? Painting police speed-camera vans the same eye-catching colour would improve road safety and that’s straight from the campaigning group Safe Speed.
According to the group’s co-founder Claire Armstrong, all ‘Speed camera vans should be the same. Identical. One bright fluorescent orange or yellow with the same markings. Then motorists will always know what they are - and they may be a deterrent.’ Going on to say that all motorists know a red light means stop and a green light go wherever they are.
It seems a national directive on consistency is needed if indeed ‘safety’ is the objective of mobile speed camera vans.