Community Speed Watch

 🚗  National Community Speed-watch Day 2026 - Wednesday 15th July  🚗

Volunteers across the country worked together to run a nation wide speed watch operation, which focuses on tackling the Fatal Five driving offences. The main contributory factors to serious and fatal collisions on Cheshire roads are careless driving, drink and drug driving, not wearing a seatbelt, using a mobile phone, and speeding, which became the focus of Cheshire’s Fatal Five campaign to try and reduce the number of serious and fatal collisions on our road network.

With speed being one of the contributory factors of serious collisions, volunteers play an important part in our road safety prevention and education messages.

In Cheshire we have 60 Speed Watch schemes, and nationally there are nearly 2,500 Community Speed Watch schemes all supported by members of the community who kindly volunteer to help make our roads safer. The volunteers record the speed of passing traffic on approved detection devices and those exceeding the speed limit are sent a letter explaining the potential risks and consequences of their behaviour.

Chelford community speed watch are one of many groups that do a fantastic job at working together to keep the village safe.

If you are interested in getting involved with community speed watch then please submit a message through the Cheshire Police website.

https://www.cheshire.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us-beta/contact-us/

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