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http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk , February 8th 2007
MORE than 200 new sites for speed cameras have been identified across the West Midlands - and at least three are likely to be installed in Coventry.
City council chiefs have visited accident blackspots where police say a total of 18 people were killed or seriously injured over the past three years.
The sites on the priority list include Holbrook Lane, near the junction with Everdon Road, Holbrooks, where seven major crashes have occurred, and Hearsall Common, close to its junction with Canley Road, also with seven serious accidents.
A camera box was to have been installed on Willenhall Lane, Willenhall, last September following four serious-
injury accidents in three years, but council officials are still carrying out more assessments on the position of the box, which would cost about £10,000 to install.
Coventry currently has 15 speed-camera boxes within its boundaries plus six red-light cameras to catch drivers jumping traffic lights.
Yesterday accident reduction chiefs in the West Midlands revealed they were looking at 200 new sites.
Cllr Kevin Foster (Con, Cheylesmore), cabinet member for city services, said: "We have approved recommendations for camera boxes on these three extra sites and officers will report back to cabinet when it meets on March 22."
The city services chief admits there is no cost to the council in installing more camera boxes once sites are approved and wired up.
But not all will contain speed cameras, which cost £30,000 each and are moved around the region which has a total of 300 boxes.
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