Both light and heavy vehicles will receive penalties for speeding at two trial sites in regional NSW starting today.
This is part of a trial that extends the use of average speed cameras to light vehicles for the first time.
Data from the trial shows that during the two-month warning period, speeding at the trial locations decreased significantly.
Since 2011, average speed cameras have been in place and enforcing average speed offences for heavy vehicles. Now they are also measuring average speeds of light vehicles on a 15km stretch of the Pacific Highway between Kew and Lake Innes (Port Macquarie) and on a 16km stretch of the Hume Highway between Coolac and Gundagai.
One in every 122 drivers of light vehicles were caught speeding through the Pacific Highway within the first week of the two-month warning period and were issued with warning letters.
One in every 122 drivers of light vehicles was also detected speeding at the Hume Highway location.
At the end of the seventh week, the Pacific Highway saw a 48 per cent improvement in behaviour, with the number of light vehicle drivers detected speeding, dropping to one in every 235.
The Hume Highway saw an improvement of 37 per cent, where the figure dropped to one in every 194.
During the warning period, light vehicle drivers were only fined if caught exceeding the speed limit by more than 30 km/h.
There have been nine fines issued at the Pacific Highway location and three fines issued at the Hume Highway location during the warning period.
All fine revenue from camera-detected speeding, red-light, mobile phone use and seatbelt offences goes into the Community Road Safety Fund, which is used to fund priority road safety programs and initiatives.
The switch from warning letters to enforcement mode at the two locations is the next step in the trial which was committed to following last year’s Road Safety Forum.
All other average speed cameras around the state continue to only enforce heavy vehicle speeding.
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