Section speed cameras: soon average speed checks

The government plans to deploy so-called "section" radars that monitor the average speed of vehicles between two points, says the transport ministry in response to a written question from a deputy.

The government plans to deploy so-called "section" radars that monitor the average speed of vehicles between two points, says the transport ministry in response to a written question from a deputy.

"A device has been developed with the Center for Technical Studies of Equipment (CETE) Mediterranean. A market should be launched in the second half of 2010 for the deployment of this type of equipment", indicates the ministry in its response. to a written question from the UMP deputy of Val d’Oise, Georges Mothron, published Wednesday in the Official Journal.

The ministry does not specify when these radars will be installed on the roads, nor if they will have an educational or repressive vocation … even if experience shows that the hypothesis lucrative repressive has every chance of winning! (read in particular our since 2003).

"Section" radars are already in use in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Norway. In France, an experimental radar for educational purposes was installed in 2003 on the A10 north of Orleans. It is made up of three cameras installed on two bridges 12 kilometers apart. It detects vehicles and indicates on a light panel to the motorists concerned that they are driving at an excessive speed.

For Georges Mothron, "this system seems more relevant and above all less dangerous than the one currently in place, because it does not encourage motorists driving at excessive speeds to slow down suddenly when approaching automatic radars". This new device should "encourage a new awareness of the importance of speed, in order to pass in 2012 under the bar of 3000 road deaths per year", hopes the Ministry of Transport.

Some 4,262 people were killed on the roads in France in 2009, a drop in mortality of 0.3% compared to 2008, according to a provisional report by the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR).

LE JOURNAL MOTO DU NET (with AFP)

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