More controls against speeders: 6 mobile high-tech speed traps

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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The pressure to control drivers who drive too fast is growing in Berlin.

The police buys more of the mobile and independently working high-tech speed traps, which are parked inconspicuously on the roadside.

The police acquired the first two of these “speed measurement trailers” almost two years ago and successfully tested them.

Two more flash units were bought this January and are currently being prepared for use, the police told the German press agency.

A fifth and sixth device will be added in the middle of the year.

The devices, which cost more than 100,000 euros, could quickly recoup their acquisition costs in continuous operation.

"All speed measurement trailers in the inventory are used in daily speed monitoring when they are ready for action," said the police.

The first two mobile speed cameras recorded almost 198,000 speeding violations in just under eleven months in 2019.

That is, both flashed about every five minutes on average.

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Last year, the devices only registered 125,614 violations between January and October.

Even now, the use is reduced, as the police announced: "Currently only a speedometer trailer is used due to vandalism damage."

The flash units are built into inconspicuous but very stable trailers.

They can be set up almost anywhere to monitor fast drivers.

Thanks to their battery operation, they can work autonomously for several days at a time.

In contrast to the earlier technology, there is no need for a police officer to be around to operate or keep an eye on the technology.

Police and politicians in Berlin and other federal states are therefore enthusiastic.

There is talk of “intensive” use and flexible application possibilities.

From January to October 2020, the police caught almost 600,000 drivers who were too fast using the various systems of mobile speed traps.

In 2019 the number was just under 856,000 and in 2018 around 703,000. In addition, there were the many traffic offenders who were detected by the permanently installed flash units, for example in the motorway tunnel in Neukölln.