 NORTH Wales speed cameras are saving more lives than anywhere else in Britain, independent research has concluded. Chief constable Richard Brunstrom hailed it as "fabulous news," saying it vindicated the force's stance on the roadside cameras. A UK government survey found in three years there had been a massive 68% drop in people killed or seriously injured on those North Wales roads covered by 37 speed cameras. It puts North Wales top of the national league table compared with an average of a 40% reduction in the UK. Critics last night dismissed the figures as nonsense, with one MP asking for a meeting with Mr Brunstrom to query the details. In an 18 month period there was a reduction of 34 killed and seriously injured on the North Wales roads covered by static and mobile speed cameras. The independent report for the government, carried out by University College London, claims speed cameras save 100 lives a year in Britain. One of the most successful cameras is on the A541 Wrexham to Cefn y Bedd road, which for the three years before cameras claimed on average four dead or seriously injured a year. After speed cameras were put in place, it fell to nil. Mr Brunstrom welcomed the survey.
 "Here in North Wales we have had the best figures in the country and we are very proud to have been part of that success." But last night a North Wales MP joined other pressure groups in dismissing the figures as "nonsense". Clwyd South West MP Dr Martyn Jones said: "The police are deluding themselves and the public." | 
