From the spring, three new regions of France will be placed under surveillance by private radar cars: Occitanie is one of them.
The OTC company won the contract to manage this new deployment of 126 vehicles.
The principle of these vehicles is simple: they use infrared flashes, non-visible to the flashed drivers. They can control the cars they pass and those that overtake them. As with fixed radars, a safety margin is applied. 10 km/h for speed limits below 100 km/h and 10% for speed limits above 100 km/h. Thus, vehicles traveling at more than 146 km/h on the motorway, 124 km/h on expressways limited to 110 km/h and 61 km/h in built-up areas are flashed. Private radar cars are equipped with license plate reading cameras in the front and rear.
The motorist caught receives his ticket a few days later at the same rate as the offenses noted by the police or fixed speed cameras.
Strict commissioning.
The activation of these radar vehicles is highly regulated: they are penalized if they drive at too slow a speed, which would encourage motorists to overtake. The managing companies are not paid for the number of violations recorded, but for the kilometers traveled. These vehicles can be used 7 days a week, day and night throughout the year.
On the website, radar-prive.frthere is an interactive map that allows you to locate these radar cars with their make, model, photograph and registration number.
Tested in certain departments from 2018, they will in the future be present throughout France. The aim of the operation is to free law enforcement officers who can thus carry out other missions and to strengthen the security systems. monitoring regarding speed limit violations.
In view of the accidents affecting the department of Gers and the irresponsible behavior of certain motorists, the department should be quickly equipped. The upcoming arrival of these radar vehicles should curb the ardor of those who push too easily.
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