16 Oct 2019

Speeding truckies dodge speed camera fines

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 16 October 2019

Are trucks being let off speeding tickets? In the four years up to 2017, static speed cameras snapped nearly 600,000 vehicles going over the speed limit nationwide. But just 207 of the speeding vehicles were trucks, all caught in Wellington. While the cameras do scan a vehicles height, width and length, it takes a human looking at a photo to determine whether a fine should be given. And truck drivers RNZ has spoken to say they don't get fined when speeding past a static camera. RNZ's police reporter Ben Strang has been looking at the figures.