THE speed and red light camera at the intersection of Warrnambool’s Raglan Parade and Mahoneys Road bucked a statewide trend to issue more infringements while there has been a drop across Victoria.
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Between January and March the camera issued 1576 infringement notices to rake in $337,363 for the state government and be the 38th most productive traffic camera in Victoria.
That’s almost $3750 a day, making it the most productive in regional Victoria.
The state has 284 cameras.
From October to December last year 1512 infringement notices were issued by the Warrnambool camera totalling $331,488, about $3600 a day.
The setup at traffic lights on the eastern outskirts of the city was installed in 2009 but was inoperative until October 2011.
A total of 3299 infringements were issued from the start of October to the end of December 2011, collecting $612,000 in fines, about $7000 a day to rank 16th in the state.
Infringements are captured automatically and sent electronically to the traffic camera offences office in Melbourne which dispatches notices to motorists.
Some drivers who are caught speeding and running a red light face the loss of licence and at least six demerit points.
Drivers caught running a red light face a $305 fine.
Minister for Police and Emergency Services Kim Wells said Department of Justice figures showed a drop in the number of road safety camera fines between January and March this year, with more than 328,000 motorists caught speeding.
“Infringements went down about 37,000 from 364,735 in the last quarter of 2012 to 328,067,” he said.
Mr Wells said that since road safety cameras were introduced in Victoria during the 1990s, the road toll has halved last year of 282.
“That is still too many families losing loved ones in crashes but is well down on figures from the 1970s when the road toll was more than 1000,” he said.
