New statistics showing speed cameras are not at known fatality spots in NSW prove the scheme is just in place to raise revenue, the state opposition says.
There were no fatalities at the state's most lucrative fixed speed camera at Moore Park in Sydney in the three years before the camera was installed, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
"This confirms what motorists across NSW have suspected for some time now," opposition roads spokesman Andrew Stoner said in a statement on Sunday.
"Fixed speed cameras should only exist to save lives, not to make money for the incompetent Keneally Labor government."
Mr Stoner said the government promised over a year ago to publish statistics proving the value of fixed speed cameras as road safety measures.
"With the government grabbing money from motorists at any and every opportunity, the people of NSW deserve to know whether individual speed cameras are effective road safety measures," Mr Stoner said.
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) said fixed speed cameras continue to save lives.
"A snapshot of 10 of the state's high profile fixed speed cameras has found significant reductions in crash rates after the installation of the fixed speed cameras," it said in a statement.
Analysis of the 10 cameras showed a 36 per cent reduction in the average number of crashes and a 44 per cent fall in the number of casualties after a fixed speed camera started operating.
"The NSW government has invested in a number of road safety initiatives to reduce the road toll and these figures are proof this component is working," the RTA said.
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