Wiltshire police to enforce the speed limit here in Baydon
A recent speed survey by Wiltshire Police shows that there is sufficient speeding for the police to enforce the speed limit here in Baydon on an occasional basis as a 'Community Concern' site. Baydon has been deemed as a Community Concern site, which is not due to a casualty history but as there now is official police evidence of high volumes of speeding through the village
Baydon will be visited via a rota system ensuring that all communities get a fair share of police speed enforcement division’s time
Instructions have now been made to have safety camera warning signs erected within Baydon, plus various processes will be undertaken to update police computer systems to recognise the site of Baydon, and automatically produce summonses, etc
A summary of the statistics* from the week's monitoring at the beginning of July 2008 of
the traffic flow through Baydon via
A) 61.42% of the free flowing traffic was exceeding the 30 limit
B) The mean speed of the vehicles exceeding the speed limit was 35.45 mph
C) The mean speed of all the free flowing traffic was 31.7 mph
D) 15% of the free flowing traffic was travelling above 38.8 mph
The term 'free flowing' is an important one. It refers to traffic that can speed if the drivers wish as there was nothing directly in front of them. Using software the police can remove non free flowing vehicles from the analysis ( e.g. all those vehicles stuck behind a car towing a caravan or a tractor for example are removed so as not to dilute the percentages). So the above percentages relate to those vehicles that remain after the analysis filters have been applied and are not the entire traffic volume
* These statistics have kindly been provided to me with permission
to publish them on the Baydon village website by a police analyst working for
the Wiltshire and
Mark Austen