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Speed camera now sited in new spot
By Richard Vernalls WENews 5:50pm Saturday 5th March 2011

A SPEED camera has been moved to make way for a bus route.

The fixed enforcement camera has been put up in Tybridge Street in Worcester, but was previously on the A44 Bromyard Road near the Tudor Way junction.

The camera is the third in the area – others are sited in nearby New Road and Hylton Road. The Safer Roads Partnership said it had been moved to make way for a new bus stop, part of Worcestershire County Council’s £3.2 million bus lane scheme.
Mobile cameras have been operated in Tybridge Street since June 2008 following a series of crashes.

A spokesman for the partnership said the cost of moving the camera had been “minimal” and said the new camera would also benefit pedestrians crossing between the road between Cripplegate Park and the retail park.
“It will help regulate speeds on the road more consistently than mobile enforcement and also means that enforcement officers can be redeployed to other high priority locations in Worcestershire,” she said.

Mobile cameras were introduced to Tybridge Street in June 2008 after 12 collisions were recorded on the 400-metre stretch of road since July 2004, one of which resulted in a pedestrian being seriously injured. Just a week after the first mobile speed camera was set up we revealed how drivers had been clocked doing up to 65mph in the 30mph zone. At the time the partnership declined to reveal how many motorists had been caught speeding.