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Munich (dpa / lby) - With wide-ranging speed controls, the police want to slow down speeders in the Free State from this morning at 6:00 a.m.
During the lightning marathon, 2100 possible measuring points are to be checked for 24 hours.
Flashes are also used in other federal states and beyond the German borders in other European countries.
Driving too fast is not a trivial offense, but the main cause of serious traffic accidents, said Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) in advance.
Almost a third of the traffic fatalities on Bavaria's streets can be traced back to it.
Last year, according to Herrmann, 147 people died in speed accidents - that was six more than in the previous year, despite the lower traffic volume due to the pandemic.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, a focus of the action will be the country roads.
Around 1,800 police officers and around 50 employees from municipalities and special-purpose associations of municipal traffic monitoring will be deployed across Bavaria.
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Communication from the Ministry of the Interior on the speed camera marathon
Measuring points Upper Bavaria
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Measuring points in Lower Bavaria
Measuring points Upper Palatinate
Measuring points Upper Franconia
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Measuring points in Lower Franconia
Measuring points Swabia