Both light and heavy vehicles will receive penalties for speeding at two trial sites in regional New South Wales, as part of a trial that extends the use of average speed cameras to light vehicles for the first time.
Speed cameras on the 15 kilometre stretch of the Pacific Highway between Kew and Lake Innes (Port Macquarie) and a 16 kilometre stretch of the Hume Highway between Coolac and Gundagai, have been enforcing speed offences for heavy vehicles since 2011. Now they are also measuring average speeds of light vehicles.
Data from a two-month warning period showed that speeding at both locations decreased significantly.
In the first week, one in every 122 drivers of light vehicles was caught speeding on both the Pacific Highway and Hume Highway cameras and were issued with warning letters.
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At the end of the seventh week, there was a 48 per cent improvement in behaviour on the Pacific Highway with the number of light vehicle drivers detected speeding dropping to one in every 235.
On the Hume Highway, speeding drivers dropped to one in every 194, marking an improvement of 37 per cent.
During the warning period, light vehicle drivers were only fined if caught exceeding the speed limit by more than 30 kilometre an hour. Nine fines were issued at the Pacific Highway location and three were issued at the Hume Highway.
All fine revenue from camera-detected speeding, red-light, mobile phone use and seatbelt offences goes into the Community Road Safety Fund, which is used to fund priority road safety programs and initiatives.
All other average speed cameras around the state continue to enforce only heavy vehicle speeding.
For more information, visit: www.transport.nsw.gov.au/
