NSW: School speed cameras catch 20,000 drivers in five months

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2007
NSW: School speed cameras catch 20,000 drivers in five months

Nearly 20-thousand drivers have been caught speeding in New South Wales school zones
in five months .. after the state government earlier this year installed 100 flashing
lights warning them to slow down.

Freedom of information documents reveal 25 cameras snapped 19-thousand-995 motorists
during school zone times between January 29 and June 30 .. netting more than 2.4 million
dollars in fines.

News Limited says the highest number of infringements occurred on The Entrance Road
at Bateau Bay .. on the central coast .. where three-thousand-300 motorists ignored the
flashing speed signs.

NRMA president ALAN EVANS described the behaviour of the speeding motorists was "pretty dumb".

And NSW Roads Minister ERIC ROOZENDAAL says speeding through a school zone is reckless
and stupid behaviour.

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KEYWORD: SPEEDING (SYDNEY)

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