The cameras were introduced in April

Mobile cameras were brought into 47 accident hotspots around the county in April this year.

The cameras were targeted at notorious accident areas - like the M6, the A6 and the A66 - that accounted for more than 75% of all reported injury collisions in Cumbria.

But while death rates have fallen at those specific spots, the county wide death toll is the same as last year with a month still to go.

The survey from the Cumbria Safety Camera Initiative found the number of people being killed and seriously injured at the black spots has fallen by about 40%.

New targets

But road accidents away from the areas covered by cameras have risen.

The organisers are still disappointed that the overall death toll has remained one of the worst in the country.

The organisation said its next priority was to identify the new hotspots and target them with cameras.

They fear, however, the initiative will merely displace the accidents from one group of roads to another.