women cops speeding fine on way to hospital to see dying mother

A TOWNSVILLE woman slapped with a speeding fine on the way to be with her dying mum has taken on the Queensland Police - and won.

Townsville cleaner Natalie Lucas, 45, told The Sunday Mail she would rather spend a week behind bars than pay a $133 speeding ticket for travelling 91km/h in an 80km/h zone.

She received the ticket when a mobile speed camera snapped her car on University Rd on July 26 as her partner Gary Ottaviano rushed her to Townsville Hospital about 1.30pm, minutes after she was told her mother Valerie, 73, may have suffered a heart attack.

It was later found to be a stroke and her mother died the next day. "It wasn't like we were speeding for the hell of it," Ms Lucas told The Sunday Mail. Read more..

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Red-light camera fines to be reviewed after bungle revealed

MORE than 9400 motorists will have their red-light camera fines reviewed after a bungle at Melbourne airport was exposed.
Police Minister Peter Ryan has asked speed camera watchdog Gordon Lewis to investigate infringements issued to motorists from a camera at Melbourne airport over a 15-month period. The review could see up to $2.8 million returned to drivers and 28,000 demerit points reinstated. Read more...

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NSW Safety Fund Running

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. NSW Rejects Point to Point Cameras

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Community road safety fund legislation passed into law

Legislation has passed the state’s Upper House creating the Community Road Safety Fund allowing all money raised from speed camera offences to be spent on road safety.
NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay said for the first time all speed camera and red light camera revenue will be hypothecated to the Community Road Safety Fund and used to fund road safety programs.
The Community Road Safety Fund was announced on 1 June this year as part of the government’s Speed Camera Strategy. Transport for NSW now will work with Treasury to ensure the fund is fully operational by the start of July next year.
“While much has been done to reduce the road toll since the 1970s, ongoing commitment and funding is vital to reducing the cost of road trauma to the community,” Mr Gay said.
“The effect of this fund is simple – drivers who ignore the law and put other road users at risk will be paying for road safety improvements in NSW,” he said.
“We have listened to the community who have asked for the use of speed cameras to be transparent.
“This fund and the recent annual review of speed cameras are important steps in achieving that transparency.
“I should also acknowledge the support of NRMA Motoring and Services and its members, who tabled a petition of 13,500 signatures in Parliament last November requesting that a fund of this nature be established,” Mr Gay said. 
Contents of the fund will cover delivery of state-funded road safety programs in NSW, including enhanced enforcement conducted by NSW Police, road safety engineering works, public education campaigns and road safety education programs.
The Government is finalising its Road Safety Strategy, which will highlight road safety priorities for the next 10 years and help direct how road safety funds are spent into the future.
This strategy has been developed in consultation with community groups and stakeholders to ensure it reflects best practice road safety and community priorities and it is currently open for public comment.

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Speeding Costs Minister

QUEENSLAND'S dumped police minister has been told there's no scope for him to rejoin Campbell Newman's cabinet team any time soon. David Gibson was forced to resign in April - less than two weeks after he became police minister - when it emerged he had been caught driving on a suspended licence. On Friday, the Gympie MP told the ABC he was ready to return to cabinet. "I believe I am, but it's a decision for Campbell. When he - if he - was to make the call I would accept and do so humbly recognising that not often do you get a second chance at anything in life," Mr Gibson said. Read More....

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App alerts drivers when approaching other vehicles at dangerous speeds

App alerts drivers when approaching other vehicles at dangerous speeds
The Safety Sight app warns motorists if they need to slow down to avoid a collision with the vehicle in front of them.

Platforms that enable vehicles to interact with each other – such as the one being developed by researchers at Clemson University – have been in the works for a while and are expected to make driving even safer in future. Using smartphone technology available now, however, is the Safety Sight app, which warns motorists if they are heading too fast towards another vehicle. Read more..

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App helps drivers avoid red lights

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that uses dashboard-mounted smartphones to help drivers avoid red lights and reduce fuel consumption.
The app called SignalGuru predicts when a traffic signal is about to change, and the speed that should be driven when approaching an intersection in order to cruise through without stopping.
"The stop-and-go pattern that traffic signals create increases fuel consumption significantly," said Emmanouil Koukoumidis, the scientist behind the app.
"We wondered how we could help drivers cruise through signal light intersections without stopping, and how much we could save on gas and improve the flow of vehicles," he added.

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When approaching an intersection, the camera on a driver's dashboard-mounted smart phone is activated, which detects when a signal transitions from red to green and vice versa.
Using this information, the app determines the speed that should be driven to avoid stopping at a red light on the cusp of turning green, or a green light just shy of turning red.
"It tells the drivers that 'if you drive at 30 miles per hour (48km/h) then you'll be able to cruise through without stopping,'" explained Koukoumidis, adding that the speed recommended is always within legal speed limits.
Information on the traffic signals, such as when they change, is crowdsourced by other users of the app and then sent back to SignalGuru to improve the accuracy of its predictions. Read more: 

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QLD budget says more Speed Cameras coming

The Queensland government will cut 14,000 public sector jobs, hike mining and gaming royalties and increase speed cameras in an effort to get back in the black and regain its AAA credit rating.  Read  more

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NSW commits camera revenue to safety fund

THE NSW government has axed a legal loophole that would have let Treasury take a cut of speed camera revenue, after it was accused of breaking a promise to direct all the money to road safety.

In June, Roads Minister Duncan Gay announced a dramatic increase in the number of speed and red light cameras, but said all the money raised would go to a new Community Road Safety Fund Read more

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Can Number Plates Predict the Future

A SUPERCAR with a reg that reads “write-off” nearly ended up one yesterday in a 1am smash. The Audi R8 — whose number plate is R8 OFF — left a trail of destruction as it careered off the road.   Read more: 

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The most expensive speeding ticket ever caught on camera

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Delhi Gov embrace ISA / SpeedAlerting Technology

Private vehicles in India will soon come fitted with a GPS-based speed-limiting device - already in use abroad where it is called Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) system - designed to prevent motorists from breaching legal speed limits.

Once made mandatory by the government, automobile manufacturers will have to kit out vehicles with the device on the factory floor before selling them to buyers.

The Union road transport and highway ministry has been testing the device over the last six months on accident-prone stretches in several cities with encouraging results.

The device was tested on the roads of Delhi and Gurgaon, where over-speeding is second nature to motorists and high-speed road crashes are routine, last month.

From the driver's seat, the device looks like this. Mounted at a suitable place on the dashboard, it looks like any GPS satellite navigation system or satnav.

The device is fed by its manufacturer with a detailed road map of a city or place with the legal speed limit on each road.

 India accounts for 10 per cent of the global road accident fatalities and attempts to enforce basic road safety regulations to tame rogue drivers have terribly failed.

So the road transport and highway ministry is now keen to adopt the next-generation technological solution over deploying more traffic policemen and making penalties steeper to make the country's roads safer.  Read more:

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WA- fixed speed camera fleet doubles

Perth’s fixed speed camera fleet is expected to be boosted by Friday, as part of a police rollout to target speedsters.  it will bring the total amount of fixed cameras in Perth to five However, WA ranks lowest across the nation in the fixed camera tally. It is believed New South Wales leads the states with 130 fixed speed cameras, Victoria ranks second with 22, and Queensland and South Australia follow with 15. New Zealand also has implemented 56 speed cameras. The Office of Road Safety has endorsed the use of fixed speed cameras, citing their merit from a commissioned report by academic Professor Max Cameron. In his findings, Professor Cameron says fixed speed cameras lead to a reduction in crashes. "The average reduction in casualty crashes at fixed camera sites across all studies was 26.2 per cent," the report said. "The average reduction in serious casualty crashes was 53.3 percent, about twice the magnitude." Opposition transport spokesman Ken Travers said Labor supported measures to tackle speeding, but favoured point-to-point cameras.

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50 zone speeding cost drivers thousands

Monitoring of 50km/h zones has intensified. The RACT said people were feeling the pain."Our members are telling us they're being caught in 50km/h zones for very low-level speeding offences," Mr Taskunas said. "We're talking about speed zones that have been lowered in the South by 10km/h in and around the city and the suburbs." Low-level fines were particularly infuriating for many drivers, Mr Taskunas said, because they did not consider their speeds dangerous. "The fact is speeding offences now carry a minimum of two demerit points, so P-platers caught a few kilometres over in a 50km/h zone twice, lose their licence," he said.

"We support high-visibility policing over cameras and the fact is a few kilometres does make a difference and drivers have to slow down and obey the law." TAS police  association president Randolph Wierenga said. "But at the end of the day if you don't like speeding fines, don't speed."

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