Ref. 30390-37CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A SPEEDING driver who escaped death in a car crash is calling for more speed cameras to be installed on Swindon's roads.

Jason George survived a horrific accident after his Ford Mondeo careered across Thamesdown Drive and smashed into a lamppost at 60mph last year.

The father-of-one was driving in a 40-mile zone when he clipped the kerb and spun out of control.

He said: "I wouldn't have been doing that speed if there had been a speed camera on the road where the accident happened.

"I think speed cameras are a good thing, they make people slow down."

He appealed to Swindon drivers to slow down after he nearly suffered the same fate as his father, who died in a road accident aged 33 the same age Jason is now.

"The accident made me think about the way I drive," he said. "We all drive too fast sometimes and it seems to me more and more people are driving like idiots. Anything the government or the authorities can do to get people to slow down is a good thing."

Jason's father Allan died in a crash on the Marlborough Road heading into Swindon in 1979 after he was hit by a vehicle which emerged from a junction without its lights on.

Current legislation says authorities can only place speed cameras in accident black spots.

Mobile speed cameras now regularly patrol Thamesdown Avenue.