Vandals chop down another speed camera in Cornwall
The speed camera was cut down at Longdowns on the A394 A speed camera has been cut down on a main road in Cornwall in the third such incident in less than two months. The camera – located at Longdowns on the A394 between Helston and Falmouth – has been cut at the base.
It has since been covered with police tape. It is the county’s third such incident in six weeks after average speed cameras were previously damaged in Perranarworthal[1] and Trewennack[2]. Mabe parish councillor Peter Tisdale said it “will cause a lot of upset”.
He said: “It took years and years of campaigning, firstly to get a 30mph speed limit in the village, and then to get a camera. “The main reason the camera was put there was because cars were going far too fast through the village and we have young people crossing the road to get to their school buses.”
Devon and Cornwall Police had previously pledged to replace the speed cameras vandalised in recent weeks. The force said poles cut down on the A394 between Helston and Trewennack would cost between GBP6,000 and GBP10,000 each to replace. A speed camera chopped down at Perranarworthal in October was reinstalled with reinforced steel[3].
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