The key objectives of the fixed speed camera program are to ensure that drivers keep to the legal speed limit and to reduce crashes and thereby prevent deaths and injuries on NSW roads.
Every fixed speed camera is accompanied by high profile advance warning signs and the community advised of the start of its operation by a media release detailing the camera location, crash history at the site or reason for the cameras installation and the date of commencement.
There are three warning signs installed on the approach to a regular fixed speed camera. These signs all depict an image of a speed camera, together with an applicable warning message, in the left panel and the regulatory speed limit in the right panel. The three signs appear in the following order on approach to the speed camera and read as follows:
- 'speed camera 24 hours';
- 'speed camera ahead'; and
- 'heavy fines loss of licence'.
The diagrams below depict the signs that would appear on the approach to a speed camera in a 60 km/h zone.
Where school zone speed cameras are installed, there are three warning signs situated on the approach to the camera. The diagrams below show the types of signs that are typically seen on the approach to a school zone speed camera.
These signs are installed because the main objective of the program is to slow drivers down and reduce the annual cost to the community of speed-related crashes, which is over $1.2 billion per year.
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