A Monash University Accident Research Centre professor has told the Australasian Road Safety Conference (28-30 September 2021) that mobile speed cameras...
While fixed speed cameras that measure your average speed between two points have been common across Australia for several years,...
Germany is banning fixed speed camera alerts provided on most GPS units and many mobile phone apps in a worrying trend that could be replicated in other countries. In most Australian states, fixed speed cameras are sign posted, but safety nannies are always looking for new ways to clamp down...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs...
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only...
The issue of police being directed to meet traffic offence targets or quotas are back in the news in Queensland and South Australia. The matter generally raises the ire of motorists who say it is proof that police are revenue raisers rather than performing road safety duties. Critics also say...
Brisbane riders who spent Wednesday’s Ekka Holiday riding the famed Mt Glorious Rd may find they have an unwelcome TruCAM...
Motorists sometimes inadvertently convict themselves for speeding when they are pulled over by the police, says traffic and criminal law...
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series of community road safety forums in regional Victoria this week. The suggestion from an unknown attendee was actually written up on a blackboard among other strategies, such as more driver/rider...
Police in every state plan to immediately increase police presence on regional roads leading up to a “National Day of...
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work...
A major road safety summit has suggested speed limits on Australia’s unsealed country road network be reduced from 100km/h to 80km/h. The suggestion came at a Victorian Road Trauma Summit convened last week, but has been a hobby horse of Victorian Assistant Police Commissioner Doug Fryer for several years as this 2017...
A Toronto rider has developed an affordable but ugly head-up display (HUD) for a motorcycle helmet that provides speed alerts...
Melbourne plans to drop its CBD speed limit to 30km/h, the lowest of any capital city in Australia, following a...
New Saudi Arabian Saher speed cameras that can also detect tailgaters and excessive lane changing will directly bill a motorist’s bank account when they detect a traffic offence. Saher’s new generation of traffic cameras are being installed throughout Saudi Arabia where 1500 traffic accidents and up to 17 fatalities occur...
Camera surfing is the phenomenon where riders and drivers slow as they approach a speed camera and then speed up...
Riders are urged to take part in a major survey on attitudes to road safety strategies which has so far...
Riders who believe there is safety in numbers may be in for a shock when the whole group is pulled over by police and fined for speeding. The issue was brought to our attention when three of a group of four Brisbane riders were recently pulled over and fined for...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to...
While many riders hate covert speed cameras that are turning us into a nation of speedo gazers, they should welcome...
A rider is challenging a speeding fine he says is impossible because it claims he was doing 150% of the posted speed when he was riding uphill around a corner towing an 120kg trailer. Gerard Chee, 61, of Bribie Island, says he can’t remember the last time he copped a speeding...
Public opinion polls on speed cameras consistently find they are revenue-raisers, prompting motorists to attack them or take unusual, sometimes...
The “WannaCry” ransomware virus that affected 110 Victorian speed cameras in June 2017 and disrupted organisations including the British National Health Service,...
Rural roads without a median barrier should have a 70km/h speed limit, according to new report by the International Transport Forum that studied data from 10 countries including Australia. The report found in all 10 cases that crashes, injuries and fatalities decreased when speed limits were dropped and speed camera...
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a...
Police have defended their use of a covert Trucam mobile speed camera unit at the bottom of a 7.9km downhill...
Average speed or point-to-point cameras continue to increase their presence on our roads, but are they actually fairer than multiple speed cameras? Some of these cameras are front facing, so motorcyclists evade detection, but most are rear facing. The cameras are used in all states. However, in NSW (above photo...
Western Australia police claim they have the first rear facing mobile speed camera in Australia for the specific purpose of...
Victoria leads the nation in plundering motorists with speed camera fines, reaping $363.15 million last financial year which is more...
Many riders make an effort to warn other motorcyclists if they see a police presence, speed camera or radar unit, but is it legal and what is the best method of warning others? The main methods seem to be some sort of hand gesture, flashing the headlights, phoning or texting...
Thousands of speed and red-light infringements recorded while 110 Victorian were infected by a software virus have now been reissued....
Victorian Police have suspended, not cancelled, fines recorded by 110 fixed speed and red light cameras infected by “WannaCry” ransomware...
This photo of a “Sat-Cam” two-way fixed speed camera unit on a “speed trial” on Mt Mee Rd northwest of Brisbane has many riders perplexed. Satellite cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, can measure average speed over long distances. They have been trialled in the UK,...
Motorists are being urged to slow down to 30km/h in urban areas in the fourth annual United Nations Global Road...
Riders on the Oxley Highway face a blitz of police patrols and speed cameras in the wake of two recent...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates. A New Zealand authority earlier this year called for fixed and mobile speed cameras to be turned around to photograph the rear of vehicles after noting many motorcyclists evading fines....
New Zealand authorities are being urged to turn speed cameras around because front-on cameras are not catching speeding motorcyclists. It’s...
It appears that Queensland Police are using covert hand-held speed cameras in cars with tinted windows seemingly against their own...
Police around the country are again abusing statistics to issue their annual warning to motorcyclists that they will be out in force this Christmas. This follows a rise in motorcycle fatalities this year, including six in Queensland this past week. As a result, we can expect all available mobile speed...
Mobile speed cameras are becoming so small they are now being used on motorcycles so they can be stationed in areas where other...
New Zealand police have admitted that fixed speed cameras have not been operating for almost a year, yet the road toll...
Here’s a mobile speed camera unit we would actually like to see, mainly because it is very easy to see as the UK vans are brightly coloured and not covert. In Australia, fixed speed cameras are well signposted. Anyone caught speeding by fixed speed cameras is simply not paying enough attention and probably...
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road...
Strict speed limit control through speed cameras and police radar has turned riders into speedo gazers, says motorcycle tour founder...
Motorcycle riders will cheer loudly if police introduce radar that detects texting drivers – but don’t expect it to replace the ubiquitous speed camera cash cow. A company in Virginia, USA, is working on a device that detects texting radio signals sent from a mobile phone which are different from...
Did you know that your speedo is most likely inaccurate and that the inaccuracy could vary slightly with time? In...
Here we go with another rave about speed cameras. After recent announcements in Queensland that the speed tolerance would be...