Boy racers in Southport being urged to cut their speed as part of a national police campaign to reduce deaths and casualties on the roads.
Speeding is one of the major contributory factors in road collisions and officers are appealing to motorists to kill their speed before it kills themselves or other road users as part of the National Police Chief Council’s latest campaign.
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The latest figures show that 26 people were killed, 531 people seriously injured and 2,449 slightly injured on the roads in just one year (2017), with 65 of those collisions as a result of exceeding the speed limit.
Merseyside Police officers are more determined than ever to reduce this number in 2019.
Nationally, inappropriate speed contributes to around 11 per cent of all injury collisions, 15 per cent of collisions resulting in serious injury and 24 per cent of collisions resulting in death.
While education and enforcement activity is carried out on our roads throughout the year, officers will focus on excess speed throughout the week commencing January 14 and officers will be carry- ing out enforcement and educating drivers about the dangers of breaking speed limits.
Officers will be carrying out daily mobile patrols at key busy times on our roads with speed enforcement equipment to stop those intent on driving above the speed limit.
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