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Specs tracks speeding motorists

A new safety camera system has been launched in a bid to cut deaths on one of Scotland's most dangerous roads.

Specs (The Speed Enforcement Camera System) will track drivers over a 28-mile length of the A77 road between Ayr and Girvan, and calculate their average speed. With 15 fatalities and 314 accidents between 1999 and 2004, the stretch is an accident blackspot.

The £775,000 initiative comprises 40 banks of hi-tech cameras. Instead of a snapshot of a driver passing one fixed point, the cameras measure the time it takes a vehicle to travel between various points. The system then calculates its average speed.

The scheme, which is is being operated by the Strathclyde Speed Camera Partnership, will be assessed after a year and if successful could be rolled out in other areas.

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