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Speed Cameras To Police Beaches
Article by: rob brady
Date: 24 Sep 2014
Australian police are to introduce undercover speed cameras on Australian beaches.
This new initiative, which involved consultation with 150 local people, follows a number of fatalities on Australia's Sunshine Coast beaches in South East Queensland.
Local police will use laser cameras in an unmarked four-wheel-drive in the Noosa North Shore area, where the speed limit on beaches is 50kph - in the vicinity of camping areas - and 80kph elsewhere.
A police spokesman commented on the "many unnecessary deaths" on the beaches stating: "Every weekend, we get one or two roll-overs or crashes up there. We've tried everything and people don't seem to want to listen. So we're going to have to do something a bit covert and maybe when they get the ticket in the mail they'll think, 'Oh damn there goes some more points'."
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 Posted by Guivre46 on Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:06 pm |
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I'm a little surprised that on beaches they are allowed to drive at 30mph let alone 50mph. If you are mixing recreational pedestrians who may have had the odd Fosters with motorvehicles moving at speed, how can you not predict injuries? It seems to me that you need more separation, but no doubt that would take an investment of some significance.
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| Posted by Kritou on Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:23 pm |
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| Guivre46 Wrote: | | ".... It seems to me that you need more separation, but no doubt that would take an investment of some significance. |
people on beaches .... bikes on roads maybe?
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| Posted by M8TJT on Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:45 pm |
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| Kritou Wrote: | | bikes on roads maybe? |
I hope that you are implying that's where they should be, not on the pavement?
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