New technology and increased fines as part of road safety

Published on: February 7, 2018

New camera technology will be installed as part of a crackdown on road safety
Cameras will be set up on overhead bridges above motorways and tunnels
NSW Government is also considering increasing fines for speeding

By Ben Hill For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 02:46 GMT, 7 February 2018 | Updated: 02:47 GMT, 7 February 2018

New camera technology will be installed as part of a crackdown on road safety designed to stop people from using their phones while driving.

Cameras will be set up on overhead bridges above motorways and tunnels in New South Wales, Nine News reported.

Signs will be set up to warn drivers they are about to drive past one of the cameras, while drink drivers will be given compulsory in-car breath testing devices in New South Wales as part of the crackdown.

New camera technology will be installed as part of a crackdown on road safety designed to stop people from using their phones while driving

New camera technology will be installed as part of a crackdown on road safety designed to stop people from using their phones while driving

Cameras will be set up on overhead bridges above motorways and tunnels in New South Wales

Cameras will be set up on overhead bridges above motorways and tunnels in New South Wales

The NSW Government will spend $125million to install safety barriers and rumble strips on roads, while low-range drink drivers will no longer go to court.

They will instead be issued with on-the-spot fines and licence suspensions.

The NSW Government is also considering increasing fines and demerit points for speeding.

‘The right outcome for us is to see more people alive and less people injured,’ Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Signs will be set up to warn drivers they are about to drive past one of the cameras, while drink drivers will be given compulsory in-car breath testing devices in New South Wales as part of the crackdown

‘I’m open to doing more,’ she said.

National Roads and Motoring Association spokesman Peter Khoury said fines shouldn’t be increased unless there is evidence they will make the roads safer.

‘Arbitrary increases in fines for the sake of it may not deliver the value people think they do,’ he said.

Last year, 392 people were killed on the roads in New South Wales.