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Whoever races involuntarily helps to improve the budgets of German cities: the municipalities collect fines by setting up speed cameras.
Now the working group traffic law of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV) has determined the ten »blitzermillionaires« of the past year in a survey among major German cities.
Accordingly, in 2020 at least ten German cities received more than one million euros through speed camera fines.
The front runner is Hamburg with 17.1 million euros - there are also most of the measuring devices, namely 64, announced the DAV.
Further »blitz millionaires« are Göttingen, Aachen, Dortmund, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Tübingen, Nuremberg, Dresden and Zwickau.
A profitable business
The working group on traffic law announced that flashes are mainly used to avoid exceeding the speed limit at frequent accident locations.
Significantly fewer speed cameras would be used to prevent red light violations.
It is a profitable business for the municipalities: Almost all participating cities stated that they earned far more from speed cameras than their installation and maintenance cost.
The DAV working group asked the 150 largest German cities about the number of speed cameras installed, the amount of income and their purpose.
Only 46 cities answered, 18 did not release their data for publication.
According to the information, Cologne and Leipzig, for example, did not respond.
However, the budgets showed that the lightning bolt revenue also played an important role here, it said.
The Cologne draft budget for 2022 shows that fines for driving too fast and red light violations already brought in 17.6 million euros in 2019.
In Leipzig, monitoring of stationary and moving traffic raised 11.6 million euros.
mrc / dpa
