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Types of speed cameras and ruby-red light cameras

Camera Detected Offence Program fund:2020-21 financial year. Safer road improvements $148.3 million, Road safety awareness and education $22.2 million, Queensland health blood products $4.5 million
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Speeding and disobeying red lights are major causes of road crashes.

Driving through a cherry traffic calorie-free increases your chances of crashing into a pedestrian or vehicle that has started moving through the intersection from a different direction.

Disobeying a red traffic low-cal can event in a right-angle road crash. These types of route crashes are especially dangerous for vehicle occupants because the:

  • sides of vehicles have less protection to absorb the bear on force compared to the front and rear of the vehicle
  • hitting vehicle can potentially spin out of command or roll over resulting in subsequent road crashes and injuries.

Speed and crimson light cameras are installed throughout Queensland. Cameras are installed where:

  • crashes often happen
  • motorists commonly drive higher up the speed limit or disobey a red light
  • road workers, pedestrians, or other road users are at risk.

Mobile speed cameras

There are up to 3,500 mobile speed camera sites throughout Queensland. We select sites using strict criteria, including an cess of speed related crash history. Other reasons to establish a mobile speed camera site include a known high-risk of speeding in school zones or at roadwork sites where the road workers health and safety may be at risk.

Sites are approved by regionally based Speed Management Informational Committees, made upwards of representatives from the Queensland Police Service, Section of Transport and Main Roads, RACQ and local governments.

We employ 2 types of mobile speed cameras in Queensland at approved sites:

  • Mobile speed cameras—vehicles fitted with speed camera equipment which tin park on the side of the road to monitor the speed of passing traffic.
  • Hand-held speed camera devices—used on the side of the road by police officers and can also exist prepare on a tripod.

Police officers operating mobile speed cameras from vehicles and police officers with hand-held speed cameras, tin position themselves at these sites at any time of day or night, on any day of the year. Police force officers can operate mobile speed cameras from marked and unmarked vehicles, in uniform or in plain apparel, at approved sites.

Speed enforcement is anywhere anytime on Queensland roads.

View the listing of mobile speed camera sites.

Fixed speed cameras

Fixed speed cameras are cameras that we permanently install on roads or at intersections throughout Queensland. Fixed speed cameras are used to make sure road users follow the signed speed limit at specific high crash locations or on known high-risk roads.

We select fixed speed camera locations by examining sections of road with a history of crashes related to speeding, and that may also be difficult or dangerous to monitor by other enforcement methods.

Locations are based on:

  • crash history—5 or more speed-related crashes within the by 5 years
  • crash potential.

Some stock-still speed camera locations may not take crash history but may take significant take chances factors. Sites based on crash potential, instead of crash history, aim to minimise the crash chance for new and existing roads, for example in tunnels.

Y'all can read more about crash history data used to select fixed camera locations.

Red light cameras

Carmine lite cameras operate 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Red low-cal cameras are cameras located at intersections with traffic lights. The photographic detection device is programmed to activate when a vehicle crosses the solid white stop line after the traffic calorie-free is crimson. These cameras take photos of vehicles that fail to end at red lights. They are commonly fastened to a pole or other infrastructure and placed a few meters dorsum from the solid white line, which marks the start of the intersection.

The Transport Operations (Road Use Direction – Road Rules) Regulation 2009 states that the driver of a vehicle budgeted a red traffic light must stop the vehicle as near equally applied to, only earlier reaching the stop line. Once your vehicle has travelled over the solid white finish line, you take committed an offence.

Combined red light and speed cameras

Combined red light/speed cameras operate 24 hours a mean solar day, 7 days a calendar week.

Combined red calorie-free and speed cameras are located at intersections and find both ruddy low-cal and speeding offences. The camera can detect crimson light and speeding offences at the same time, and yous can be fined for both offences. Speeding vehicles are detected when the traffic light is red, yellow or greenish.

We select combined red low-cal/speed camera locations by investigating crashes and reviewing crash data (or the potential for crashes) that has occurred at intersections with traffic lights.

Road safe camera trailers

Highly visible route safety camera trailers are deployed to high risk areas including highways and motorways, roadworks sites and school zones. In one case the camera trailer is deployed and set up, its operation is managed and monitored remotely with daily checks.

To prevent theft and vandalism, the camera trailers have an extensive security and tracking system which monitors the camera trailer location 24 hours a 24-hour interval, seven days a week. They are also fitted with 360 degree CCTV cameras, audible alarm systems and communications to Queensland Police force Service who can view live CCTV footage.

Road rubber camera trailer sites are selected using strict criteria, including an assessment of speed related crash history or potential crash risk.

View the list of road prophylactic camera trailer sites.

Point-to-point speed cameras

Indicate-to-point cameras accept been proven to reduce instances of speeding along loftier crash risk locations and improve traffic menses and density.

Point-to-point speed cameras can enforce speed limits at locations where other types of speed enforcement may be hard or unsafe, and monitor locations 24 hours a day without an operator, freeing up police resources for other duties.

We select point-to-point speed photographic camera locations by analysing lengths of road with a history of crashes (or the potential for crashes) that upshot from speeding. Road lengths generally include high volume roads, such as motorways and highways.