NO one should be surprised The Wiltshire Speed Camera Partnership and the police are unwilling to provide data on the causes of accidents on Wiltshire's roads.

The reason is simple, the facts will not support the confidence trick they have played on the public.

The Government claims speed cameras save 100 lives a year.

With the rise in the number of cameras and the prosecution of so many speeding motorists one would expect a year-on-year significant fall in road traffic accident fatalities.

Research shows the decline in road deaths has slowed down since the introduction of speed cameras.

That means cameras have not had the influence on driving habits the police maintain.

At the same time, drink-related driving accidents have increased, helped no doubt by a huge decline in breath testing.

Almost all police forces have reduced their traffic departments to the point that the only time you are likely to see a marked police vehicle is at the scene of an accident.

As a motorist who drives 50,000 miles a year I see examples of driver madness which make me very fearful.

What chance is there the errant driver would be caught by the police?

If the police are confident excess speed is the single absolute contributor to road traffic accidents, let them present the evidence for public scrutiny.

D MORGAN

Swindon