As we all know, the speed cameras in Victoria are good money-making helpers for government. But do you know how much they make money?
According to data obtained by 9 News from government, the state's most profitable mobile speeding probe is the one on Oceania Road Skenes Creek.
Between January 1 and December 22, 2017, the mobile probe only worked 274 hours, equivalent to 11 days, but issued 9809 speeding tickets for a total of A $2.5 million! An average speeding driver can be filmed every 100 seconds!
Get one in 100 seconds! make 2.5 million in 11 days! This speed, straight to the printing machine ah. Other mobile probes are not far behind.
A mobile probe at Browns Road Noble Park, for example, catches a speeding driver every 180 seconds on average.
A mobile probe at the Heidelberg Road Clifton Hill can catch a speeding driver on average every 183 seconds.
Of course, the fixed speed probe's ability to make money is also a lever drop.
The most profitable are the Flinders St and Williams St probes, which earn up to A $2.3 million a year in fines for speeding.
Fixed probes at Cemetery Road West and Royal Parade earn A $1.9 million a year.
Fixed probes at Epsom Road and Smithfield Road earn A $1.6 million a year.
The top 10 mobile speeding probes for the state's "most profitable":
1. Great Ocean Road, Skenes Creek, 9808 tickets and $2505,513;
2, 4142 tickets for Greensborough Road Macleod, and a fine of $949601;
(3) 3214 tickets and a fine of $719,685 for Ormond Esplanade Elwood,;
4, 3203 tickets and $697079 for Belmore Road Balwyn,;
5. Bell Street Preston, 2973 tickets and $691718;
6, Ballarat Road Footscray, 2903 tickets and $672886;
7, 2607 old Dandenong Road Oakleigh South, tickets and $649983 fine;
8, Princes Highway Werribee, 2535 tickets, fine $580957;
9. Beach Road Black Rock,2,529, fine of $564,716;
10, Derrimut Road, Hoppers Crossing, 2490 tickets and a fine of $562335.
The top 10 fixed-speed probes for "the most profitable" in Victoria:
1. Flinders St and Williams St, Melbourne, a ticket of 5,977, and a fine of $2,343,043;
2, 5011 tickets and $1965785 for the Road West and Royal Parade, Parkville,;
3Epsom Road and Smithfield Road, Kensington, 4057 tickets and $1598468;
(4) 3885 tickets and $1523669 for Dandenong Road and Warrigal Road, Malvern East,;
5, Johnston Street and Wellington Street, Collingwood, 3221 tickets and $1264064;
6, St Georges Road and Normanby Avenue, Thornbury, 3082 tickets and a fine of $1208327;
(7) 3076 tickets and a fine of $1205174 for Mahoneys Road and High Street, Thomastown,;
8, 2656 tickets to Warrigal Road and North Road, Oakleigh, and a fine of $1,042473;
9, 2581 tickets and a fine of $1012983;
10, Warrigal Road and Centre Dandenong Road, Cheltenham, 2362 tickets and a fine of $926336.
See, these most profitable speeding probes, a year issued more than 2000 tickets, received a few hundred thousand less fines, more than millions!
Although government, Victoria, said that we don't install these speeding cameras primarily for fines, but to get drivers to comply with traffic rules and not to speed, because you double the probability of an accident even if you're speeding 5 kmkmph, but I have to say, More than 340 speeding probes across the state do bring a lot of revenue to the government.
In the fiscal budget for 2018-2019, released in the first few days, the new fiscal year's red-light and over-speed fines are expected to increase by $3 million on the basis of the previous fiscal year to $3.71 billion!
I hope there will not be any contribution from your friends.
Remind everyone: state to run a red light, a fine of $379, deducted 3 points. Speeding is overcharged, with fines ranging from $190 to $758.
Therefore, we must abide by the speed limit, or you go down the throttle, more than 700 dollars may be gone.
Of course, money is a trifle, and the most important thing is safety. As a result of speeding caused by traffic accidents are not in a small number, car destruction is not rare, so, for the safety of their own and other people's lives, please do not speeding oh!