WA Police are installing six mobile point-to-point safety cameras in an effort to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on Western Australia’s roads.
Minister for Police, Paul Papalia said the cameras would be set up in pairs across a range of locations to calculate if the average speed of a driver between two points exceeded the limit.
“The results from a six-month trial of six safety cameras are compelling,” Mr Papalia said.
“The cameras were paired at three locations and monitored a total of eight million vehicles. There were around 42,000 drivers that were detected committing an average speeding offence.”
He said the cameras could also detect mobile phone use and seatbelt offences.
“A staggering 66,000 drivers were detected on their phones by the devices during the six-month trial, compared with 4,909 drivers across the entire State in 2021,” Mr Papalia said.
“Almost 10,000 of those drivers caught using mobile phones were repeat offenders.”
He said no actual infringement notices were issued during the trial.
“If they had been then a total of 120,000 demerit points would have been issued to errant drivers. Around 2,000 driver licences would have been lost in total,” the Minister said
“In WA, 100 per cent of the money generated by automated traffic enforcement fines is placed into the Road Trauma Trust Account, which is then spent on initiatives and resources to increase road safety, like the six new cameras,” Mr Papalia said.
