Mobile speed camera operations are in place to clamp down on drivers breaking the speed limit across Wales. GoSafe, which is the Wales road casualty reduction partnership, operates marked vans and motorcycles spread throughout towns and cities.
They are manned by fully-trained police staff or police officers who monitor the speed of vehicles passing the vans. Once they form the opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the speed limit they use equipment to record it - often resulting in prosecution. A device called a speedscope can be trained on vehicles up to 1,000m away although most work is carried out far closer, GoSafe has said.
The time, date, speed, distance, site coding, and whether the vehicle is travelling towards or away from the checkpoint is recorded on the image to produce to the offending driver. For the latest Welsh news delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter. You can join our WhatsApp news community here for the latest breaking news.
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Mobile speed cameras are in the following locations in Wales for November, 2024, according to GoSafe: