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DRIVING IN BRITIAN

Guns arrest speed

Are you travelling to Britain and apprehensive about speed limits in their country? Well it would do you a whole lot of good to familiarise yourself with a new kind of traffic policing that is fast replacing the conventional type. We're talking about cameras taking over traffic policemen, who until recently would chase your speeding vehicle, slow you down, get you to pull over and hand you a speeding ticket. However, gone are those days as fixed and mobile cameras are fast dotting the road maps and atlases of Britain. According to statistics, four out of five drivers penalised for speeding are men, clearly proving that women are the safer ones. "Avoid speeding penalties - drive like a woman" is one of the top ten tips from speed camera guru, Stephen Mesquita, writing in the new 2007 Philip's Road Atlases.

Women who are constantly at the receiving end when it comes to their driving skills will soon be grinning from ear to ear, especially after reading this report. With fixed and mobile speed camera sites rapidly rising and hitting the 7,000 mark, it would do male motorists good to actually learn a thing or two from women to avoid more penalties. Mr Mesquita's research for Philip's shows that speeders can be divided into two categories - the accidental and the deliberate. Men are much more likely to be deliberate speeders - as a result of which they pick up more fines. Of course, almost everybody, men and women, are accidental speeders at one time or another but the message is - cameras are widespread and not very forgiving.

For the launch of their 2007 atlas range, Philip's commissioned Stephen Mesquita, who spearheaded a British television campaign to publicise camera locations and share his personal tips on what can and cannot be done to avoid the cost of speeding fines. Stephen's tips and advice are exclusively featured in Philip's 2007 road atlases along with a list of all fixed and mobile speed camera locations in Britain.

Philip's, committed to road safety (their atlases are the standard choice of many of the emergency services) and their new range of motorist-friendly atlases aim to help prevent law-abiding motorists from accidentally falling victim to the confusing legacy of inconsistent speed camera regulations currently in operation across Britain.

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