Essex blitz on speeders
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• Truck drivers breaking the 30mph speed limit in Essex will face automatic fines from the end of the month when the county's police launch a "zerotolerance" speeding policy.
The campaign begins on 26 January. In theory it is a monthlong pilot project, but it is expected to continue indefinitely, and to spread to other speed limits, including the lower limits for trucks on some roads.
The initiative is timed to coincide with a national TV advertising campaign funded by the Department of Transport which will focus on the huge rise in casualties and deaths inflicted on pedestrians by drivers travelling over 30mph.
Fixed penalty notices and prosecutions will be given out in Essex as soon as a driver is caught breaking a 30mph limit.
Essex also wants to employ three traffic intelligence officers to target cowboy hauliers and persistent disqualified drivers, with tachograph and speed limiter "super-specialists" to detect the most complicated technological fiddles.
7 Lancashire police plan a massive clamp-down on speeding which is expected to boost the number of speeding tickets issued in the county from 22,000 to 50,000 a month. It is asking the Government for the L15m it needs to set up and run the scheme for two years, arguing that this would be offset by savings to the health service.