It feels like the mobile radar systems of the Oberland municipal services association are everywhere.
The statistics show that in 2022 there were 549 flashes in the district.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen -
In the end, according to the Zweckverband at the request of the local newspaper, it is up to the individual member communities (see box) how often and where flashes are flashed.
Because they “book surveillance hours and thereby determine the frequency of the checks”.
The services of the special purpose association were booked 549 times last year.
The speed cameras were particularly common in Bad Tölz.
The association based in the spa town reports that there were 122 measurements in the city area.
And indeed, there is also a place in Bad Tölz where the traffic controllers have found speed violations particularly frequently: namely on Jahnstraße.
549 flashes were used in 2022
In the municipality of Dietramszell is the spot where flashes were particularly frequent in the past year.
The association set up its devices for a total of 27 measurements on Tattenkofener Straße.
And where was driving particularly fast?
"The highest exceedances - more than 60 km/h too fast - were found in Bad Tölz, Bad Heilbrunn, Kochel, Lenggries, Dietramszell and Jachenau," reports the special purpose association, but immediately restricts that these are also emergency vehicles could.
However, anyone who is actually over 60 km/h too fast and is flashed must expect a severe penalty.
The nationwide catalog of offenses provides for a fine from 700 euros, plus two points and a three-month driving ban.
Striking speed camera spot in Dietramszell
Incidentally, the warning and fines for speed violations are not collected by the special purpose association, but forwarded in full to the respective municipality.
However, anyone who thinks that they can earn a fortune with it is wrong.
Because the expenses for the booked monitoring hours must be offset.
In the city of Bad Tölz, the bottom line was an income of almost 58,000 euros in 2022, as city hall spokeswoman Birte Otterbach reports.
Incidentally, it is even less when it comes to monitoring parking offenders: last year there was a plus of a good 27,000 euros.
That doesn't come close to covering the city's transport expenses.
This includes, for example, the renewal of the parking machines and the signs, the maintenance of the parking lot or the purchase of speed display boards.
"All in all, the city has invested well over a million," says Otterbach.
And before anyone complains loudly again: "We're not forcing anyone to pay into this pot," says Otterbach with a wink.
The police continue to carry out checks themselves
Incidentally, speed offenders in the district are not only hunted down by the special-purpose association.
Even with the police, speed measurements are still part of the business.
"We are primarily concentrating on accident blackspots outside of town," says Johannes Kufner, head of the Tölz police inspection.
His colleagues from the traffic police inspection (VPI) Weilheim are on the road every day with specially equipped vehicles and mostly mobile speed camera systems.
The VPI is responsible for the roads in the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The Tölz officials can also carry out speed measurements themselves - with handheld lasers.
Places are selected for this, "where the meaningfulness is revealed," says Kufner.
Say:
For example, checks are carried out in the area of schools or on roads where people often drive too fast.
Anyone who is convicted of a speed violation with the handheld laser will be stopped immediately afterwards.
"It's an 'honest' story," says Kufner, meaning that there are no excuses for those convicted.
"It can't be discussed who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation." And those who were so directly confronted with their own misconduct "is usually also understandable".
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
where people often drive too fast.
Anyone who is convicted of a speed violation with the handheld laser will be stopped immediately afterwards.
"It's an 'honest' story," says Kufner, meaning that there are no excuses for those convicted.
"It can't be discussed who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation." And those who were so directly confronted with their own misconduct "is usually also understandable".
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
where people often drive too fast.
Anyone who is convicted of a speed violation with the handheld laser will be stopped immediately afterwards.
"It's an 'honest' story," says Kufner, meaning that there are no excuses for those convicted.
"It can't be discussed who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation." And those who were so directly confronted with their own misconduct "is usually also understandable".
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
will be stopped immediately afterwards.
"It's an 'honest' story," says Kufner, meaning that there are no excuses for those convicted.
"It can't be discussed who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation." And those who were so directly confronted with their own misconduct "is usually also understandable".
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
will be stopped immediately afterwards.
"It's an 'honest' story," says Kufner, meaning that there are no excuses for those convicted.
"It can't be discussed who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation." And those who were so directly confronted with their own misconduct "is usually also understandable".
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation.” And anyone who was confronted with their own misconduct in this way “is usually also reasonable”.
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
who was behind the wheel at the time of the violation.” And anyone who was confronted with their own misconduct in this way “is usually also reasonable”.
Incidentally, the police sometimes not only catch speed offenders during these checks.
Because when checking the personal details, many other things come to light, says Kufner.
This ranges from the non-existence of a driver's license to an open arrest warrant, which can then be enforced in this way.
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
