Car drivers win cash with speed camera lottery

With hundreds of speed cameras withdrawn as a result of funding cuts and a new lottery draw or scratch card launched seemingly on a daily basis, perhaps the time is right to introduce an element of gambling to road safety.

Such was the thinking behind Kevin Richardson’s idea for ‘speed camera gambling’ – a concept that last year won the Fun Theory Award.

Speed camera lottery

A spokesperson for the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) said: “It’s an imaginative idea, but the incentive to not speed on streets needs to be the same sense of social responsibility that now prevents most of us from drink driving.”