If you drive too fast, you will soon be caught by mobile speed cameras

If you’re regularly speeding, you probably know where all the speed cameras are. But soon there will be fines for speeding on your doorstep. The prosecutor’s office has new mobile speed cameras that change location from time to time.

The prosecution will have twenty by the end of this year and fifty later. The speed cameras, so-called flex speed cameras, are mobile and easy to move because they work with their own battery. You do not need an external power supply.

Ultimately fifty mobile speed cameras

The twenty flex flashes will initially be used in Amsterdam, Bergen op Zoom, Hoorn, Soest and Venlo. In the end, the public prosecutor wants to cover 150 locations with 50 mobile speed cameras.

These are dangerous roads in the Netherlands, where the risk of accidents is greatest. By the way, it’s not like the flex flashes are removed and relocated every few days. According to the prosecutor, they stay in one place for two months.

Fewer road deaths by 2030

The use of speed cameras is intended to reduce the number of speeding drivers and is part of the Strategic Road Safety Plan 2030, in which it was agreed that the number of road deaths must be significantly reduced in eight years.

In fact, the target for 2050 is that there will be no road deaths at all in the Netherlands. Last year, 582 people died on the roads (427 men, 155 women), 26 fewer than in 2020.

Never before have so few drivers died

The number of bicycle deaths has fluctuated around 200 for years (in 2021 it was 207). 175 motorists died last year, the lowest number in more than 20 years. In 2000, 543 drivers died.