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Speed cameras do reduce injuries and death caused by traffic accidents and motorcycle accidents, researchers claim.

Analysing figures from 35 industrialised nations, scientists from the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia found the devices helped to cut fatal and serious injury crashes by between 11 and 44 per cent.

Speed cameras were shown to cut the average speed by between one and 15 per cent, while also causing up to a 65 per cent reduction in the number of speeding motorists.

"The overall finding is clear - speed cameras do reduce injuries and deaths," said lead researcher Cecilia Wilson of the UQ Centre on National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine.

"Road traffic injuries and deaths all reduced in places where speed cameras were operating, shows that these cameras do a good job."

The news comes as many local authorities in the UK ditch speed cameras in an effort to save money.

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