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Speed cameras working overtime S
peed cameras in the Alicante province are working overtime to catch drivers breaking the limit with as many as 254 fines being issued per day to drivers in the area. The
number of penalties being issued to drivers has shot up by 12% in the first eight months of the year in comparison to 2018. Figures released this week have indicated that the daily average of drivers fined for speeding in the province is on the increase and now averages at 254 per day. According to
data gathered by the Provincial Headquarters of Traffic of Alicante, between January and August of this year 61,701 sanctions have been filed for speeding, two thirds of them in fixed speed cameras and the rest through mobile speed controls. Over the first eight months of the year, a speeding driver has been caught in the act every
five and a half minutes. Authorities have attributed the increase in large part to the number of fixed speed camera points in operation in the Alicante province. Mobile radar fines have also increased – when officers stop and fine a driver caught in the act there and then. Mobile speed camera fines have increased from 11,120 in the first eight Continued on page 6
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