The New South Wales Government will soon begin a speed camera trial which could increase your chances of copping a speeding fine in the state.
ABC News reports two of the state’s point-to-point average speed camera zones will begin detecting all vehicles as part of a six-month trial.
Average speed cameras detect a vehicle’s speed across a set distance, rather than a traditional fixed camera which only does so at a single location, providing a more comprehensive assessment of its speed.
At present, the 31 active average speed zones in New South Wales only police heavy vehicles, which are involved in approximately 18 per cent of the state’s road fatalities despite accounting for just over eight per cent of the total distance travelled by vehicles through the state.
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The trial will run for six months – beginning at an undisclosed time – with motorists being spared from speeding fines for the first 60 days, after which fines and demerit point penalties will start to be issued.
The two areas will be a 15km stretch of the Pacific Highway between Kew and Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast, and the second will be a 16km section of the Hume Highway between Gundagai and Coolac, about two hours west of Canberra.
According to New South Wales Roads Minister John Graham, the locations were chosen as there had been six road fatalities between them from 2018 to 2022.
“They’re both regional trials because this is a bigger problem in the regions,” Mr Graham said, as reported by ABC News.
“Although only a third of people live in regional New South Wales, that’s where two thirds of the deaths from road crashes happen.”
New South Wales is only one of two jurisdictions which doesn’t use average speed cameras to detect light vehicles, as the Northern Territory doesn’t have any point-to-point cameras.
While there are 31 active point-to-point camera locations in New South Wales, a further six average speed cameras have been installed in Sydney but are yet to be switched on.
