1,140 cases of speed limit violation detected in 24 hours

Police identified about 1140 cases of speed limit violation during a 24-hour long special drive across the country on Thursday, said the National Police Board in a press release on Friday.

The photos will result in at least a traffic penalty fee.

Speed control was mainly carried out by 27 automatic camera surveillance vehicles in 155 control hours when the movement of about 26,500 drivers were monitored.

“On average, 4% of the vehicles driving past the automatic camera surveillance vehicles exceeded the speed limit within the traffic penalty fee,” said Chief Superintendent at the National Police Board Heikki Kallio.

Kallio said that speed control was aimed at morning commuter traffic and traffic near schools and child daycare centres. One important theme of the speed control marathon was adherence to speed limits in places where there are children around after the summer.

Surveillance was also carried out by fixed automatic control cameras at different posts and this resulted in around 1,550 photos resulting in at least a traffic penalty fee.