OZschwitz: Even the safest driver is being set up to fail

HAPPY Easter and welcome to another holiday blessed with double demerit points and draconian fines - all in the guise of lowering the road toll.

At least highway patrol police are visible this long weekend, rostered on as they all are for Operation Tortoise. A ticket issued on the spot is a lot easier to stomach than a letter in the mail weeks after you have been snapped by a speed camera for driving perfectly safely at 58kmh in a 50kmh zone.

That was the experience of more than half a million motorists in NSW last year caught by fixed speed cameras last year.

Of the staggering $70,000,000 delivered into state treasury coffers by speed cameras, almost 90 per cent of fines were slapped on motorists who had been speeding less than 15kmh over the speed limit. That was twice the revenue of the previous year, The Daily Telegraph reported last week.

In other words, chances are these drivers were travelling with the traffic, paying attention to the conditions, rather than anxiously checking their speedometer every 15 seconds while easing a foot off and on the accelerator in deathly fear of copping a fine and losing three points off their licence.

No one likes a dangerous driver but the Government has so shifted the goalposts in favour of revenue-raising over safety that even the most expert driver can't help but be caught up in speed camera roulette.

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OZschwitz: Even the safest driver is being set up to fail

OZschwitz: Even the safest driver is being set up to fail

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