If you’ve been snapped by a stealth van ensure it’s correctly parked. Especially check that it has permission from any land owner if parked on private property and check the 250m rule

A mobile speed camera vehicle must be deployed in the following manner.

1. Speed camera vehicles must be legally parked.
2. Speed camera vehicles must be deployed in a manner that is visible from the roadside and are prohibited from being deployed in a hidden fashion.
3. The position in which the speed camera vehicle is parked must, so far as is practicable, be at the optimal distance from the normal traffic lanes to ensure the safety of the operator and best quality photo, i.e. about one and one half lane widths away from the normal path of vehicles.
4. When the speed camera is being deployed, on a roadway, the speed camera vehicle tailgate must either be fully extended or closed.
5. The use of private land for the parking of speed camera vehicles is permitted where the occupier of the land has clearly given permission for such use.
6. The speed camera vehicle must be parked on a straight section of road so that the operator has adequate reference points for aligning the camera. This ensures that any vehicle, which is being measured and/or photographed, is travelling on a straight section of road at that time.
7. Where a speed camera is deployed in an area where drivers are making the transition from a higher speed limit to a lower speed limit the speed camera vehicle must not be positioned closer than 250 (two hundred and fifty) metres from the point where the speed limit reduces. This restriction does not apply within School Zones or Temporary Speed limit sites.
8. A speed camera must not be deployed within 250 (two hundred and fifty) metres of the finish of any passing lane.
9. In any situation where a camera is operational at a site, a second camera must not be deployed in the same site or in any other site adjoining the first.
10. Where a speed camera is deployed in a school zone speed camera site, it must only be operated in the following circumstances:
    • between the hours of 0730 hrs to 1800 hrs on a school day; or
    • at any other time that a school activity occurs, this includes sports activities held at school grounds

Source: http://www.police.govt.nz/

Steep Dunedin street nabs 5000 speedsters in four years

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/83826890/Steep-Dunedin-street-nabs-5000-speedsters-in-four-years

A mobile speed camera on a steep Dunedin street has snapped more than 5000 motorists in just four years.

Police figures reveal a camera on High St – once home to the steepest tramline in the world – recorded 5264 infringements between 2012-13 and-2015-16.

Almost half of those (2508) were in 2014-15.

Southern District road policing manager Inspector Tania Baron said: “I’m not surprised by the high number, more disappointed.”

“If we have written that many tickets that probably only represents a small proportion of the people speeding.”

Motorists caught going 11kmh to 15kmh over the 50kmh limit would be slapped with an $80 ticket, or $120 if caught speeding 15kmh to 20kmh over the limit, she said.

“A good day isn’t determined by the number of tickets that a speed camera flashes, it is about the number of hours it is out there doing a job.”

Cameras were deployed based on risk, and that “risk profile determined where, when and how we deploy”.

Over the same four-year period, police recorded 18 crashes on the street, including two serious crashes and three minor injury crashes.

Baron said the site was probably chosen as there used to be a school nearby, but it closed in 2011.

“I’m not saying it is not a high risk now, but it is probably not our highest risk.”

Being caught speeding at the site may trigger motorists to “slow down everywhere”.

Baron confirmed police were reviewing camera sites, and said she wanted to deploy more cameras to high risk areas such as coastal Otago