Letter: North Yorkshire needs average speed cameras too

By contrast North Yorkshire don’t have a single fixed traffic camera anywhere in the county. The A65 road is every bit as dangerous and fast through traffic thunders through Long Preston and Hellifield day and night with no routine controls.

Similar problems exist for villages like Cowling where there is recent video evidence of drivers deliberately illegally racing through the village but there were no fixed police cameras to record and help prosecute the incident.

How long will North Yorkshire continue with this dangerous policy of failing to protect its citizens with simple measures that are used in every other part of the country except for one other equally stubborn county?

Cllr Andy Brown (Green Party)

Cononley