THE sites of 50 new speed camera sites in Lancashire were due to be revealed today as part of the biggest ever drive to save lives on the county's roads.
The new sites were being announced at the launch of the Lancashire Project for Road Safety which aims to prevent 1,380 deaths and injuries over the next five years.
Speeding, drink-driving and failure to wear seatbelts will all be targeted as police chiefs get tough with dangerous drivers in a £10million campaign.
Tough government targets demand that police forces across Britain slash the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents by 40 per cent, halve the number of children killed or seriously injured on roads and reduce the number of slight accidents by 10 per cent -- all by 2010.
Announcing the scheme -- revealed by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in February -- Superintendent Alf Hitchcock, of Lancashire Police, said the force was determined to have met those targets by 2005.
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