820 Motorists Flashed by Eight New Cameras

Four of them, including Broken-Verdière at Camp de Masque and Triolet at Ecroignard, have been activated since Thursday, while the other four (in Belvédère, Bonne-Mère, Verdun and Grande-Rivière-Nord-Ouest) came into operation Saturday. This is the radar installed at Triolet Bypass which flashed the largest number of offenders is 427 motorists. Follows that found in Grande-Rivière-Northwest with 132 offenders. In total, since the beginning of the year, they are 4,500 motorists have been flashed for speeding.

In 2013, there were 46,111 motorists have been punished for the same offense. Given that any offender is liable to a fine of Rs 2,000, the offense has reported a whopping Rs 92 million to the state. The violations also rained during the holiday season in late December and early January with 5,500 motorists sanctioned, of which 4,500 were caught in flagrante delicto excess speed. By the end of 2014, our roads will be equipped with fifty speed cameras.