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In March 2010 LDC supported the investment in Speed Check Services (SCS).

SCS was created in 1999 to bring the SPECS safety camera system to the road safety market.SPECS is the world's leading average speed enforcement solution.

SCS, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of traffic management solutions, secured £9million of development funding from mid-market private equity firm LDC to accelerate its expansion strategy.

The company, based in Frimley, Surrey, is the UK’s leading provider of average speed camera systems with Home Office Type Approval, which is required for legal enforcement.

Its products have been used in almost 250 locations by the Highways Agency and Local Authorities to improve safety and driver behaviour on motorways and trunk roads, during maintenance works and along routes with a collision history.

The systems are widely considered to be more effective than so-called ‘spot’ or ‘fixed’ cameras at regulating motorists’ speeds, in turn helping to reduce serious injuries and improve traffic flow. They also help to improve roadworker safety – a key objective for the Highways Agency. Unlike traditional cameras, they also issue fewer penalties, relying instead on reinforcing positive driver behaviour.

SCS now expects to double its annual sales over the next five years as a growing number of authorities switch from fixed to average speed cameras. The systems are increasingly being deployed in urban areas to calm traffic as an alternative to more visually intrusive measures, such as road humps and chicanes.

SCS’s wirelessly connected digital cameras use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (“ANPR”) technology to measure average speed between defined entry and exit points, with data being stored in a repository for retrieval by the relevant police authority.