Cameras nab speedsters

One speed camera in southern New Zealand has caught more than 12,000 speeding drivers in just seven months.

Police and the NZ Transport Agency installed 33 new speed cameras around the country in 2018, including five in Otago and Southland.

The five southern cameras have led to 22,194 infringement notices being issued during the first seven months of this year alone.

One camera rules them all, according to statistics released to Stuff under the Official Information Act.

A camera on Wansbeck St (State Highway 1), in Oamaru, caught 12,618 speeding drivers from January to July.

It resulted in infringements worth a total of $1.7 million.

Most of the fines were issued to motorists travelling 11kmh to 15kmh over the posted 50kmh limit, which came with a $80 fine.

Seven motorists were nabbed travelling more than double the limit and were slapped with fines of about $630 each.

A static speed camera on the Dunedin Southern Motorway caught the second highest number of speeding drivers in the southern region (4918).

It was followed by cameras on Dunedin’s Maclaggan St (2826), Dunedin’s King Edward St (934) and then Invercargill’s Otatara Rd (898).

Cameras were installed at the sites because of identified crash risks.

Of the country’s top 10 cameras for tickets issued, two were from Otago, with the Oamaru camera coming in at No 5, and the Dunedin Southern Motorway camera at nine.

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