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SPEED-CAMERA operations look set to be privatised in WA, prompting fears that profiteering might overtake road-safety priorities.
Police Minister Rob Johnson revealed yesterday that his staff had been involved in “introductory meetings” with British firm Serco, which wanted to run WA’s multimillion-dollar speed-camera operations.
Mr Johnson admitted that privatising speed and red-light operations was on the Barnett Government’s agenda and was supported by Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan.
But the plan has already drawn fire from the Opposition, which claims that putting the personal details of thousands of WA motorists in the hands of a private operator is unwise.
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Discussion in the Australian safety camera forums.
$50m Victoria speed camera blitz aimed to lower road carnage
LEADFOOT motorists face a massive crackdown, with a phalanx of extra fixed and mobile speed cameras to be deployed within weeks.
In the biggest expansion of Victoria’s speed-trap network since the late 1980s, 31 new fixed cameras will be erected and another 22 existing sites upgraded.
And mobile cameras will be snapping away for an extra 3000 hours a month a 50 per cent increase on current hours.
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Holden Monaro proving he’s better than the crappy Lamborghinis the Aussie way
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Minister for Roads Michael Daley announced the new demerit point scheme would be introduced on 1 July 2009 to make the system fairer for motorists and our roads safer for the entire community.
Mr Daley said the RTA had worked in close conjunction with the NSW Police and the State Debt Recovery Office to introduce the new system as quickly as possible.
“When I announced the new system in March of this year, I asked the RTA to make the changes to the demerit point system their number one priority,” he said.
“I’m pleased to announce today that the new demerit point will be introduced on 1 July, two months ahead of schedule.
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DRIVERS fined for speeding between 60 and 69km/h have risen from 1515 in 2002 to more than 100,800 last year – an MP branding them ‘cash cow’ revenue raisers.
In a further dramatic surge, the number of fines issued by police in the 60 to 69km/h speed range jumped from 76,536 in 2006 to 100,866 last year.
Official figures show that, overall, more than 1.38 million people have been fined a total of more than $200 million for speeding since 2002, when the Rann Labor Government came to power.
The figures were tabled in Parliament after a question from Opposition transport spokesman Duncan McFetridge, who last night said it “showed the Government was using motorists as cash cows”.
But Treasurer Kevin Foley said it was “offensive to suggest that our motivation for making our roads safer is to raise revenue – it is to save lives”.
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Source: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23833137-2682,00.html
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ALMOST 60,000 South Australian motorists are just one offence from losing their driver’s licence – triple the number of six years ago – Transport Department data shows.
NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca has failed to learn his lesson, and is to be stripped of his driver’s licence for six months.
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Source: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23533420-5001021,00.html
THE traditional roadside speed trap along with a dressing down by a police officer is disappearing fast as figures show police-issued speeding fines have plummeted by 44 per cent – or 158,000 – over the past four years.
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Lost in the rush
Bill Tuckey | January 09, 2008
IT took just five hours for the first road carnage newspaper headline to appear at the start of the 2007 Christmas-New Year holiday period.
A man was killed when a stolen car crashed at an intersection during a chase in Melbourne at 5am on December 20.
And so it began: the parade of news presenters, police using words such as slaughter and issuing pleas to slow down, and graphic images of mangled wreckage, sobbing relatives and friends, and flowers laid at crash sites.
Properly analysed, road death toll figures demonstrate there is an extraordinary lack of debate about the real reasons behind fatalities and injuries in crashes. An examination of the figures shows that with all the speed and red light cameras, anti-alcohol measures, vehicle safety, improvements, road upgrades, street lighting and big spending on creative advertising over the past five years, the death toll has largely plateaued. Over that period total national vehicle registrations (adjusted for deregistered vehicles) have risen from 13.162 million (10.365 million of them passenger vehicles) to just over 14.8 million (11.51 million passenger vehicles). During 2007, an average of 9200 new (and safer) vehicles came on to the roads every month.
Data shows Australia has been very good at reducing road trauma. The death ratio per 100,000 population has been about the same for the past five years. Injury totals have declined significantly because of vehicle impact performance, faster paramedic response and more effective medical intervention. As a result, holiday road trauma does not justify the alarmist treatment it gets or the authorities’ shock-horror rhetoric.
Figures from the federal Australian Transport Safety Bureau show that for several years state authorities have set the Christmas-New Year holiday period at 13 days (in Victoria in 2007 it began at midnight on December 20 and ended at midnight on January4). In 2006, the last full year for which ATSB figures are available, 62 people died: drivers, passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians. That represented an average of 4.7deaths a day. The same figures show that for the entire year, deaths averaged 4.38 a day and the most lethal weekly period year-long is Friday to Sunday, when there is an average of 5.4 deaths a day. For the five days of Easter 2007, there were an average of five deaths a day.
It shows during holiday periods roads are no more dangerous than on the average weekday, and certainly safer than during normal weekends. And this is despite the diluting holiday logistics of extra distances covered, heavier traffic, bigger passenger loads, unroadworthy vehicles, drivers not used to distance driving, greater stress, more distractions and increased alcohol consumption.
