Police doubled the number of automatic speed camera trailers

The police in Brandenburg want to put a stop to the rushes with more technology.

The authority wants to double the number of its modern, alarm-secured so-called enforcement trailers, better known as speed camera trailers.

In the future, each of the four police departments in the country will have two of the self-photographing trailers, said police spokesman Mario Heinemann on Thursday.

Potsdam - There will be a total of 26 speed cameras of different types - including the 8 modern trailers - in the country.

The devices can be parked on the street for days and are battery-operated.

Above all, they are used in particularly accident-prone locations such as motorway construction sites.

Since they do not have to be controlled by hand, they are also less noticeable.

“Speeding is the be-all and end-all in Brandenburg,” said Heinemann.

First the newspaper "Märkische Allgemeine" reported.

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Last year, the police counted around 1.3 million speed violations in the country, as can be seen from the road accident report for 2020.

For comparison: 6766 right of way and red light violations were counted.

According to the data, 140 people were killed in traffic accidents.

Almost half of them died from excessive speed.

In 2019 there were 125 road deaths.

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