Police say they have seen a 37 per cent fall in the number of people being seriously injured on the county’s roads.
In the first three months of this year, 305 people were killed a seriously injured on Northamptonshire’s roads, down from 387 last year.
The figures, which are the latest available and were released this week, show the number of people injured in January, February and March this year.
Police claim the reductions are, in part, due to increased numbers of uninsured cars being taken off the roads, a boost to the number of community speed watch programmes and better education.
Talking about community speed watch, head of force operations, Superintendent Andy Cox, said: “Communities have concerns in their streets and villages and we have trained and invested in their deployment and I think it can be hugely impactive when people are driving through their own communities and they see their neighbours and people who they live near enforcing the area.”
He said there were now around 50 volunteer speeding schemes, all run by residents, in Northamptonshire.
Supt Cox said police meanwhile had pulled over more than 20,000 people in the last 12 months for speeding. He added: “When you get into a car it is probably the most important thing you do that day and if people thought in that manner then I think we would see improvements on our roads.”