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Speed camera sites in new atlases

The AA says the new books can encourage safer driving
New road atlases showing the location of all fixed speed cameras in the UK are being published by the AA.

The latest editions also list some of the locations used by the police for mobile speed traps.

The motoring organisation suggests the maps may help to make drivers aware of accident black spots.

But safety campaigners say they are concerned that the books could help some speeding drivers decide where they have to slow down temporarily.

"By telling people where the cameras are, you are also telling them where they are not - giving them a means to break the law," Zoe Stowe of the safety charity Roadpeace told the BBC.

The AA says it always urges motorists to obey the speed limit and points out that speed cameras are placed in locations where there have been fatal or serious accidents.

About three million motorists a year in the UK are caught by the cameras and about six million drivers have points on their licences.

The new publication comes as in-car camera detectors, which are illegal in some European countries, face a ban in the UK.

The AA says its new road atlases are the only ones to show the location of all fixed speed cameras.

It is now also possible to program the locations of speed cameras in the latest satellite navigation systems.