{"id":14091,"date":"2022-12-13T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14091"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:54:21","slug":"cameras-able-to-spot-drivers-using-mobile-phones-trialled-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/cameras-able-to-spot-drivers-using-mobile-phones-trialled-in-western-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameras able to spot drivers using mobile phones trialled in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameras which can identify high-risk behaviours including drivers using their phone while behind the wheel or not wearing a seatbelt are being trialled in a new area of Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Safety Commission has launched the two-week trial of mobile point to point safety cameras in Port and South Hedland.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras can also detect spot speed and work together to detect average speed between two points.<\/p>\n<p>As Australia\u2019s first mobile point to point safety cameras, they have the flexibility to move as often as every few hours and will be trialled on a range of roads.<\/p>\n<p>The move to the Pilbara region comes following a three-month trial of the cameras in the Perth metropolitan area as well as the Wheatbelt, Mid-West, South-West and Great Southern regions.<\/p>\n<p>Key results from the three-month trial include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 million vehicles passed through the cameras<\/li>\n<li>40,100 incidents of drivers using their mobile phone<\/li>\n<li>7,800 incidents of drivers or front seat passengers not wearing their seatbelt<\/li>\n<li>12,900 incidents of drivers\u2019 average speed exceeding the posted limit (point to point).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cInsights from Port Hedland, together with other regions, will help us determine whether safety cameras capable of detecting multiple high-risk behaviours are likely to improve driver behaviour and road safety outcomes in WA,\u201d said Rebecca Hamilton, the Road Safety Commission\u2019s Director of Policy and Programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameras which can identify high-risk behaviours including drivers using their phone while behind the wheel or not wearing a seatbelt are being trialled in a new area of Western Australia. The Road Safety Commission has launched the two-week trial of mobile point to point safety cameras in Port and South Hedland. The cameras can also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}