At the speed camera marathon 2024 on April 19th, speed offenders will be targeted. A list shows when and where drivers need to be particularly careful.
Hamm - Attention, speed cameras: Drivers in many federal states have to expect significantly more speed controls. The reason for this is the big speed camera marathon on Friday, April 19, 2024. If you want to save yourself high fines or prevent losing your driving license, you should keep a close eye on your speedometer. For many countries, one day of action is not enough. The police there are increasing speed controls for a whole week as part of the European “Speed Week”.
Speed camera marathon 2024: Where and when speed offenders will be targeted
Whether it's the (short and intense) speed camera marathon or the (longer) speed week - the underlying idea is the same: speeders should be afraid of being caught by a speed trap behind the next bend or on the next straight. The first day of action, then called the “Blitzmarathon”, took place in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012. It has been carried out throughout Germany since 2013. The first Europe-wide campaign followed in 2015. “Roadpol Operation Speed” is now carried out regularly in many EU countries.
Not all federal states will take part in the speed camera marathon on April 19, 2024. Pioneer NRW, for example, is instead relying on Speedweek, which begins on April 15th, as a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior
announced when asked by
wa.de.
Speed camera marathon on April 19, 2024: Which federal states are taking part
However, these federal states are taking part in the speed camera marathon 2024:
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Brandenburg
Hesse
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saxony-Anhalt
Thuringia
The procedure for the speed camera marathon varies from state to state. In most cases, it is not just the police departments that are increasingly carrying out speed camera checks, but also cities and districts. The information policy is also not uniform: While the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior published a list of all 1,800 speed camera locations last year, neighboring Baden-Württemberg generally remains silent. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, the police no longer release measuring points at all in many places due to a new information policy.
Speed camera marathon 2024: speed controls at accident hotspots
As a rule, during the speed camera marathon, traffic is monitored primarily in accident hotspots and in particularly vulnerable zones at schools, kindergartens and retirement homes. Brandenburg is placing a focus this year on monitoring traffic on avenues, where there have been particularly serious car accidents with fatalities. If you want to protect yourself from a ticket by looking at your cell phone, you have a problem, because driving with the speed camera app switched on is forbidden for all occupants - even if there is a loophole.
Excessive or inadequate speed is still one of the main causes of accidents. In recent years, many people have died due to speeding and illegal racing. The criticism of it is as old as the speed camera marathon. The effect is only limited to the period of strict monitoring; there are no long-term effects. Police unions also complain about the high level of staffing. However, this is becoming ever smaller due to the rapidly increasing use of speed camera trailers.