CHRIS THOMSON
DECEMBER 22 UPDATE: Perth’s first fixed speed camera – on the Mitchell Freeway – has already snapped 20,000 alleged speeders including drivers of three cars seized from motorists charged with reckless driving.
Police today revealed that 20,000 motorists had been caught exceeding the freeway’s 100kph speed limit in the five days since the camera was installed.
Police spokeswoman Ros Weatherall said that on Sunday a 28-year-old Mt Nasura man drove a Holden Commodore allegedly at 199kph in the 100kph zone at the camera’s Innaloo location.
Ms Weatherall said that on the same day another, 23-year-old, man of Tapping was driving a Mitsibishi Magna and allegedly clocked at 176kph.
Both men had their cars seized and were charged with reckless driving. They will appear in Perth Magistrates Court on January 4.
A 23-year-old Gosnells man was also charged with reckless driving and had his Nissan sedan seized after he was allegedly snapped by the same camera on December 16. That man will also appear in Perth Magistrates Court on January 4.
The one-eyed-bandit that clocked the men is Western Australia’s first fixed-position speed camera.
The camera is located on the northbound side of the freeway near the Karrinyup Road exit. Warning signs have been placed on the freeway and on-ramps at the approaches to the camera.
The camera is one of six to be installed around Perth by June 2012.
Speed fines resulting from the cameras will go to the Road Trauma Trust Account that currently receives two-thirds of revenue raised from speed and red light camera infringements.
From July next year, the account will receive 100 per cent of all speed camera revenue.
take the buses off the road’s use mono rail. when the bus strike happened there was no back log. It is caused because they stop every100-200meter’s that is the true cause of traffic jams
There is one solution to all of the issues involved, leave early to arrive at a destination on time, therefore eradicating the desire to speed.
There is a reason why Main roads and the W.A police enforce strict standards on the Perth roads, Cars are very dangerous.
Unfortunately the general population in their comfortable bucket seats, air conditioning and day dreaming away with the pop music on the radio, do not understand the seriousness of just how easy it is to die in a car accident.
Just check out the statistics in Australia, more people die in car accidents nation wide, than people dying from drug overdose and murder… combined !, yet, nobody fears the roads. weird eh ?
Here here fedup.
The reason why people speed is coz it takes so long to get places.
Address the real cause of speeding. You set out to go 10 mins away only for it to take 30mins because there is a traffic light every 10 meters. You arrive at the red light and there is no traffic on the road for the green light lane and you sit there and you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait some more…
Then the light goes green and you take off and get to the next traffics lights and it happens again and they wonder why people try and run a amber light. It is not us that are the danger, it is freaking main roads and there out dated traffic controllers driving people to take risks.
Smart countries use medium and large roundabouts to keep the traffic flowing and on roundabouts that suffer peak hour they put time of day traffic lights that come on during peak hour.
I am sick of hearing the government harp on about going on about drivers speeding causes accidents and fining people will change things. The same old tune over and over again.
Road tolls have reduced over the years because cars have got antilock braking and traction control and airbags and seatbeat tensioners and more crumble zones and better tyres and and and and…
I will tell what hiding speed cameras does, it makes them check their speedo ever 3 seconds instead of watching the road, it makes them study the sides of the road instead of looking at where they are driving, it makes them dangerously slam on their brakes when they think they see a camera.
I do approve of putting a speed camera on a crash spot and painting it florecent yellow and and then painting marker lines on the road in front of the camera where the danger point is to make people stick to the speed limit, I can guarantee it won’t be a danger spot anymore.
What about speed signs. My favourite traffic sign on the way to Mandurah is police sign DO YOU KNOW THE SPEED LIMIT, WE DO. It is like they are mocking you because the last speed sign was ONE HUNDRED BILLION Kilometres ago and since then the speed limit probably changed 4 times without notice.
They don’t need to put those huge boogie board size speed signs up as simple round speed sign about the size of a frizbee can be pop rivited to street lamps around perth, the cost is greatly reduced because they don’t need a big metal post and the boogie board sized sign is reduced to frizbee size, so they can then afford to produce more signs. Also less poles on the side of the road means less chance of motorist injury, also next time we see that sign we won’t feel so mocked.
I guess the argument comes back to the same thing. Mainroads WA in my opinion are just a another useless government department which is internally rail-roaded by a select few idiots that have bullied their way to the top and anyone showing any motivation or want for change hung out to dry.
Yea theres not much point, with the GPS shit we buy these days they show all the cameras, and whats wrong with slowing down for a km and then just flying off after you get past the camera
Sure they may fix speeding on that ONE spot, but they don’t do anything about the obscene increase in hoon driving, there’s NEVER any police when you get tailgated, when you see drivers use the emergecy lanes to overtake, when you see them go on the emergency lane at speed to re-enter as incoming traffic at off-ramps, you don’t see police sorting out old fuddy duddies who go 80 and thereby impede traffic flow and cause accidents as they force drivers to merge in to one lane to overtake on already outdated and extremely overused and old “freeways” which are the cause of billions of dollars of wasted time in our economy not to mention that they are so congested that a 30 minute trip can take hours.
Then there’s the WA drivers who seem to think the smallest thing on the side of the road should cause them to slow down, how many times isn’t there a traffic build-up for many kilometers and when you get to the “end” there’s just a car with a bonnet up or a traffic cone not even on the run-off, every day between Beeliar and the Roe Highway where you go from 2 to 4 lanes ALL traffic slows down when the opposite should occur.
Where is main roads? Are all those life public servants worth ANY of OUR taxes when they can’t run the road system?
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