Orange City Council will implement new strategies as part of the Slow Down in Town campaign to combat speeding, especially on Bathurst Road and Anson, Byng and Woodward streets, which have been identified as speeding hot spots for drivers in the city.

As part of the campaign there will be a courtesy speeding monitor warning motorists to slow down and a three-week period of police enforcement as well as a media awareness campaign.

“People are driving too fast for the quantity and congestion of traffic,” Road Safety Officer Andrea Hamilton-Vaughan said.

“Over the years the traffic community has become complacent about speeding in their streets.”

Between 2003 and 2007 there were 77 crashes in the city from speeding, resulting in the deaths of four people.

Driving just five kilometres over the speed limit in the streets of Orange doubles your chance of crashing.

Ms Hamilton-Vaughan says drivers approaching intersections and roundabouts too fast account for 90 per cent of speed related accidents in the city.

“We’ve got lights, there is no reason for this,” she said.