One of the EU’s road safety targets is to reduce the number of serious injuries and road accident victims to zero by 2050. To achieve this, member countries are sharing best practices in road safety, including harmonisation of rules and penalties. Traffic laws are very similar in all European countries, and so are traffic fines. […]
Multi-infringement radars are capable of detecting different offences simultaneously. In Luxembourg, radars capable of detecting speeding and red light running offences have been successfully tested. Such fixed radars operate completely autonomously, allowing special surveillance of dangerous intersections in urban environments 24 hours a day. In recent years, increasingly sophisticated radars have come into operation. These
The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation has annulled a speeding fine because the speed camera was approved but not homologated. Italian law states that speed cameras need two authorisations: approval and homologation. The Supreme Court of Cassation’s order shows that some Italian speed cameras are only operating with the former, which would invalidate their fines.