Motorists are being urged to slow down to 30km/h in urban areas in the fourth annual United Nations Global Road...
Police around the country are again abusing statistics to issue their annual warning to motorcyclists that they will be out...
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...
While many riders hate covert speed cameras that are turning us into a nation of speedo gazers, they should welcome...
Mobile speed cameras are becoming so small they are now being used on motorcycles so they can be stationed in areas where other...
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,...
Germany is banning fixed speed camera alerts provided on most GPS units and many mobile phone apps in a worrying...
A major road safety summit has suggested speed limits on Australia’s unsealed country road network be reduced from 100km/h to...
New Zealand authorities are being urged to turn speed cameras around because front-on cameras are not catching speeding motorcyclists. It’s a better option than re-introducing front number plates for motorcycles as suggested by former Victorian Road Safety Camera Commissioner Gordon Lewis. Speeding motorcyclists are estimated to account for around 10%...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates....
Melbourne plans to drop its CBD speed limit to 30km/h, the lowest of any capital city in Australia, following a...
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...
The issue of police being directed to meet traffic offence targets or quotas are back in the news in Queensland...
Camera surfing is the phenomenon where riders and drivers slow as they approach a speed camera and then speed up...
Thousands of speed and red-light infringements recorded while 110 Victorian were infected by a software virus have now been reissued. The fines were withdrawn or suspended pending an investigation by Road Safety Camera Commissioner John Voyage. Despite Motorbike Writer only receiving confirmation on Thursday that the investigation had started, it...
Brisbane riders who spent Wednesday’s Ekka Holiday riding the famed Mt Glorious Rd may find they have an unwelcome TruCAM...
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to cover themselves while operation radar units and speed cameras. Gold Coast rider Gary Lynn confronted the cop photographed in the bushes above on the Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd on a Sunday on...
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road...
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work...
While fixed speed cameras that measure your average speed between two points have been common across Australia for several years, WA is about to start trialling mobile version. These cameras can be towed on trailers to various locations as needed. WA Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner says they will be...
Here’s a mobile speed camera unit we would actually like to see, mainly because it is very easy to see as...
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a...
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...
Riders on the Oxley Highway face a blitz of police patrols and speed cameras in the wake of two recent...
Police have defended their use of a covert Trucam mobile speed camera unit at the bottom of a 7.9km downhill...
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...
Police in every state plan to immediately increase police presence on regional roads leading up to a “National Day of...
Motorcycle riders will cheer loudly if police introduce radar that detects texting drivers – but don’t expect it to replace...
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...
Riders are urged to take part in a major survey on attitudes to road safety strategies which has so far...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs...
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...
Rural roads without a median barrier should have a 70km/h speed limit, according to new report by the International Transport...
The “WannaCry” ransomware virus that affected 110 Victorian speed cameras in June 2017 and disrupted organisations including the British National Health Service,...
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...
Strict speed limit control through speed cameras and police radar has turned riders into speedo gazers, says motorcycle tour founder...
A Toronto rider has developed an affordable but ugly head-up display (HUD) for a motorcycle helmet that provides speed alerts...
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...
A Monash University Accident Research Centre professor has told the Australasian Road Safety Conference (28-30 September 2021) that mobile speed cameras...
Victoria leads the nation in plundering motorists with speed camera fines, reaping $363.15 million last financial year which is more...
Public opinion polls on speed cameras consistently find they are revenue-raisers, prompting motorists to attack them or take unusual, sometimes illegal, measures to avoid them. There are many reports from around the world of speed cameras being attacked and many websites that sell “proven methods” for avoiding them. Attack methods...
Many riders make an effort to warn other motorcyclists if they see a police presence, speed camera or radar unit,...
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series...
Western Australia police claim they have the first rear facing mobile speed camera in Australia for the specific purpose of catching speeding motorcyclists. However, we checked other police services throughout the country and they say their mobile speed camera vans can scan across multiple lanes and capture vehicles approaching on...
New Zealand police have admitted that fixed speed cameras have not been operating for almost a year, yet the road toll...
Did you know that your speedo is most likely inaccurate and that the inaccuracy could vary slightly with time? In...