Germany is banning fixed speed camera alerts provided on most GPS units and many mobile phone apps in a worrying... Read More
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs... Read More
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only in those states, but also Queensland. The penalty period lasts until January 1 (inclusive) in NSW and ACT and January 5 in WA where one rider copped a hefty 14... Read More
The issue of police being directed to meet traffic offence targets or quotas are back in the news in Queensland... Read More
Brisbane riders who spent Wednesday’s Ekka Holiday riding the famed Mt Glorious Rd may find they have an unwelcome TruCAM... Read More
Motorists sometimes inadvertently convict themselves for speeding when they are pulled over by the police, says traffic and criminal law specialist Chris Kalpage. We have previously offered tips on what to do if pulled over by the police as well as tips from the police themselves! Now, Chris has offered the following tips... Read More
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series... Read More
Police in every state plan to immediately increase police presence on regional roads leading up to a “National Day of... Read More
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work for motorcycles. The technology has been initially installed at the intersection of Glenelg Highway and Dunkeld-Cavendish Road and Penshurst-Dunkeld Road, near Dunkeld, Victoria, and will be rolled out across the... Read More
A major road safety summit has suggested speed limits on Australia’s unsealed country road network be reduced from 100km/h to... Read More
A Toronto rider has developed an affordable but ugly head-up display (HUD) for a motorcycle helmet that provides speed alerts... Read More
Melbourne plans to drop its CBD speed limit to 30km/h, the lowest of any capital city in Australia, following a Monash University report to council. The new speed limit will replace the 40km/h limit introduced seven years ago between Flinders, Spring, La Trobe and Spencer streets. The university research says the... Read More
New Saudi Arabian Saher speed cameras that can also detect tailgaters and excessive lane changing will directly bill a motorist’s... Read More
Camera surfing is the phenomenon where riders and drivers slow as they approach a speed camera and then speed up... Read More
Riders are urged to take part in a major survey on attitudes to road safety strategies which has so far only received responses from four motorcyclists. Click HERE to take part in the survey! Dr João Canoquena of the University of Notre Dame Australia, says the final round of the... Read More
Riders who believe there is safety in numbers may be in for a shock when the whole group is pulled... Read More
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to... Read More
While many riders hate covert speed cameras that are turning us into a nation of speedo gazers, they should welcome more red light traffic cameras. Lane filtering now puts us at the front of the traffic light queue, so when the light changes to green we have a duty to... Read More
A rider is challenging a speeding fine he says is impossible because it claims he was doing 150% of the posted... Read More
Public opinion polls on speed cameras consistently find they are revenue-raisers, prompting motorists to attack them or take unusual, sometimes... Read More
The “WannaCry” ransomware virus that affected 110 Victorian speed cameras in June 2017 and disrupted organisations including the British National Health Service, Russian Interior Ministry and Deutsche Bahn railways did not corrupt speed and red-light fines, a report has found. Police withdrew 600 fines and suspended 55,000 infringements pending the investigation by... Read More
Rural roads without a median barrier should have a 70km/h speed limit, according to new report by the International Transport... Read More
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a... Read More
Police have defended their use of a covert Trucam mobile speed camera unit at the bottom of a 7.9km downhill section of the rider-popular Mt Mee Rd, northwest of Brisbane. This follows a call earlier this month from the Queensland Police Union for an immediate end to the use of... Read More
Average speed or point-to-point cameras continue to increase their presence on our roads, but are they actually fairer than multiple... Read More
Western Australia police claim they have the first rear facing mobile speed camera in Australia for the specific purpose of... Read More
Victoria leads the nation in plundering motorists with speed camera fines, reaping $363.15 million last financial year which is more than a third of the national total of $1.1 billion. The figures for the 2016-17 financial year were quoted in a press release from Ford which suggests that Driver Assist... Read More
Many riders make an effort to warn other motorcyclists if they see a police presence, speed camera or radar unit,... Read More
Thousands of speed and red-light infringements recorded while 110 Victorian were infected by a software virus have now been reissued.... Read More
Victorian Police have suspended, not cancelled, fines recorded by 110 fixed speed and red light cameras infected by “WannaCry” ransomware virus from June 6-23. UPDATE: A preliminary investigation has concluded and all fines have now been reinstated. Read the full report here. Acting Deputy Commissioner Ross Guenther said almost 600... Read More
This photo of a “Sat-Cam” two-way fixed speed camera unit on a “speed trial” on Mt Mee Rd northwest of... Read More
Motorists are being urged to slow down to 30km/h in urban areas in the fourth annual United Nations Global Road... Read More
Riders on the Oxley Highway face a blitz of police patrols and speed cameras in the wake of two recent motorcycle crashes – one fatal. This blitz comes as a speed zone review of the highway continues with no timeline for a final decision. The speed zone review has been delayed... Read More
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates.... Read More
New Zealand authorities are being urged to turn speed cameras around because front-on cameras are not catching speeding motorcyclists. It’s... Read More
It appears that Queensland Police are using covert hand-held speed cameras in cars with tinted windows seemingly against their own speed camera policy. These images of a Holden station wagon with tinted windows and an officer using a hand-held radar gun attached to a camera recording device was snapped on... Read More
Police around the country are again abusing statistics to issue their annual warning to motorcyclists that they will be out... Read More
Mobile speed cameras are becoming so small they are now being used on motorcycles so they can be stationed in areas where other... Read More
New Zealand police have admitted that fixed speed cameras have not been operating for almost a year, yet the road toll hasn’t skyrocketed. Veteran New Zealand motorcycle tour guide Peter Colwell says this shows that fixed speed cameras don’t have much of an effect on the road toll. “If the lack of tickets in... Read More
Here’s a mobile speed camera unit we would actually like to see, mainly because it is very easy to see as... Read More
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road... Read More
Strict speed limit control through speed cameras and police radar has turned riders into speedo gazers, says motorcycle tour founder Peter Colwell. Peter says police and governments are obsessed about targeting speed with thousands booked annually unless they gaze at their speedos. In Queensland, alone, the first year of lowered speed tolerances... Read More
Motorcycle riders will cheer loudly if police introduce radar that detects texting drivers – but don’t expect it to replace... Read More
Did you know that your speedo is most likely inaccurate and that the inaccuracy could vary slightly with time? In... Read More
Here we go with another rave about speed cameras. After recent announcements in Queensland that the speed tolerance would be wiped out, there comes news that Victorian police have been caught out breaking their own camera placement rules. They’ve been caught hiding mobile speed cameras in bushes and behind road... Read More