Zero tolerance campaign against speeding on Highway 51 proves effective

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Police in the Greater Helsinki area are pleased with the results of their zero tolerance speed camera campaign on Highway 51. The experiment is set to last throughout the month of September.
      During the first eighteen days of the campaign the police intervened in every single case of speeding on the Highway 51 stretch running west of the capital between Espoo and Karjaa.
     
Over this period, a total of 72,500 vehicles drove past the cameras. In all, 2,150 cases of speeding were detected, corresponding to three per cent of all vehicular traffic.
      No cases of speeding in excess of 30 kilometres per hour over the limit were observed, and only 15 vehicles went past the cameras at a speed of 20 kilometres per hour over the limit, triggering a more serious fine that is related to the driver's income.
      During the first half of the month, 210 drivers were given fines, or one in ten of those exceeding the speed limit. The remainder were let off with a warning. Of the 210 fined drivers, the overwhelming majority of them received fixed-sum fines imposed for violations of less than 20km/h over the limit.
     
Police have also noted that average speeds on the stretch of road - widely perceived as among the more dangerous in Southern Finland - have declined sharply during September to very close to the prescribed limits.


Links:
  Finnish Police: Speed Surveillance

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