I refer to this section - The $10m project will see 56 new digital cameras activated across the country in sites assessed as having a high risk of speed-related crashes.- Counties Manukau Road Policing Manager Inspector Alison Brand said there had been 15 crashes in the vicinity of the Great South Rd site in the past 10 years. Although none had been fatal, three were serious and 12 were minor or non-injury crashes.
Surely 15 non fatal crashes in 10yrs is minimal or am I missing something here (besides the obvious revenue gathering).
esprit,
Feb 12, 11:25pm
Nope. you're not missing anything :)
tamarillo,
Feb 13, 5:30am
Another part of the misguided game they play upon us, their paymaster. We are a subservient meek people. Many would have stopped this deluded policy years ago but not us. We need vigilantism to shot down cameras, install sighs where there are vans parked, flash lights when highway patrol is taking tickets on the only piece of overtaking lane around. These idiots work for us and this is how they treat us! Ps. I am an old fart, clean living, never been in trouble. But I'd support action to get some real road safety happening in this land of ours.
countrypete,
Feb 13, 6:05am
I usually sigh when I go past a camera van, but there's no need to install a sigh.
timmo1,
Feb 13, 6:42am
The old fart part or the other bit?
tintop,
Feb 13, 6:55am
What you are missing is that the new camera is replacing an older one - which by implication has been doing a good job over the last 10 years or so given that the crash record is so low.
mechnificent,
Feb 13, 6:55am
What's the speed limit on Gt South Rd.
That's why the crashes aren't life threatening. There are far more dangerous, higher speed roads. but they don't have the traffic volume to catch so many people just barely exceeding the speed limit as Gt South has.
It's not about saving lives, it's revenue.
purple666,
Feb 13, 7:38am
So why replace it if it has been doing such a great job? Surely a better place for their flash new fangled money extracting device would be in a "real" speed causing crash zone.
I notice they don't give the number of heinous speeders caught in said 10yr period, or the amount of revenue received.
tintop,
Jun 21, 10:06pm
It is a newspaper article, not an in depth exploration of the speed camera system.
But basic logic seems to suggest that as the old cameras need to be replaced - something more flexible and advanced is used.
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