‘Disgruntled motorist’ smashes speed-detection camera in Songkhla

By Somchai Samart

The Nation

 

 

Highway Police are hunting for an unknown person who smashed a booth that contained an automatic speed-detection camera between the 14th and 15th kilometre markers on Highway No 43 in Songkhla’s Na Mom district on Tuesday night.

 

Highway Police 7 commander Pol Colonel Pakhin Na Ranong said on Thursday that police suspected a disgruntled local motorist who was fined for exceeding the legal speed limit of 120 kilometres per hour was responsible. The culprit could face a charge of destroying state property, he added.

 

Songkhla Highway Police issue up to 2,000 traffic tickets per day for motorists caught speeding thanks the two speeding cameras. 

 

The damaged booth is located at an area notorious for speeding-related accidents on the highway’s Hat Yai-Na Mom section. Another area along the same highway at the Hat Yai-Rattaphum section is also monitored. Pending repairs, police will bring a portable speed-detection device to use in the area.

 

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Pending repairs, police will bring a portable speed-detection device to use in the area.

Wow, must be a real money-making location to get that prompt of attention from the police.  Never knew them to react this quickly to issues where there was no monetary benefit to themselves. But hey, what do I know?

12 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

detection camera between the 14th and 15th kilometre markers on Highway No 43 in Songkhla’s Na Mom district

so now everyone knows where it is and can either slow down or practise their Muay Thai on it!

2000 tickets per day from 2 cameras!

 

At 1000B a ticket (I heard, not sure) that is 2 million Baht a day!

Those permanent speed camera's are real moneymakers, anywhere in the world.

Yep, if they had been around when my mates and self were in our 20's it would have fixed UK's national debt.

??

These vandals were amateurs....The real pros use old tires soaked

with gasoline,lit on fire to get the job done...

In the UK there have been all sorts of attempts to destroy these devices. The most ingenious I think was a bloke who worked for the railways, who attached one of the thermal packs which they use to weld rails together to a camera. Worked quite spectacularly, but unfortunately as the camera died it took a series of pictures of him climbing into his van and legging it!

5 minutes ago, JAG said:

In the UK there have been all sorts of attempts to destroy these devices. The most ingenious I think was a bloke who worked for the railways, who attached one of the thermal packs which they use to weld rails together to a camera. Worked quite spectacularly, but unfortunately as the camera died it took a series of pictures of him climbing into his van and legging it!

Wasn't there some kind of 'club' in Germany or Holland a few years back that destroyed quite a few?

Well mounting speed cameras in that height is not very smart, unless they got a spy cam fitted on the other side of the road ( up in a tree) keeping an eye on the money maker.

51 minutes ago, taichiplanet said:

so now everyone knows where it is and can either slow down or practise their Muay Thai on it!

waze is a very good friend for all this s....

2000 tickets per day. Wow. I wonder where all that money goes. 

Creative money lending....

 

They may be a Cash Cow but do they actually make drivers slow down?

for these cameras to work they require a viewable number plate on the rear of the vehicle, so only people that are actually complying with the number plate laws can actually be caught and fined

Smashing up a camera that proved he broke the law. Well there we go.. about sums up what a lot in the kingdom think about law enforcement!


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Songkhla Highway Police issue up to 2,000 traffic tickets per day for motorists

 

Nice one make it B5000 put the camera on a overhead gantry surrounded by razor wire do it nationwide and soon pay for those new subs and tanks.

 

But But ?

120km/hr is a very fast speed.  That is almost 74.5 m/hr.  I don't go that fast on big 4 lane decent interstate hiways in the USA.  Kinetic energy increases as the square of the velocity.  Many 60 MPH accidents are very survivable because you usually have a chance to brake slow down, impact absorption etc.  But getting above 70 mph just increases danger rapidly

Gosh these cameras need to be installed much higher so they can not get destroyed so easily.

12 hours ago, Bastos60 said:

Those permanent speed camera's are real moneymakers, anywhere in the world.

and where I live usually put where they will make money, not where they will make people drive slower due to a dangerous area.

Stick WiFi in there and all images automatic transmitted to central system ..and a proximity device that photographs anything within 1 meter ..just thinking out loud !!

13 hours ago, naboo said:

2000 tickets per day from 2 cameras!

 

At 1000B a ticket (I heard, not sure) that is 2 million Baht a day!

500 baht for camera fine... still a good daily revenue stream!!!

If they added a couple of red light runner cameras in Pattaya they would give out

10 times that number of tickets.

12 hours ago, Tredz said:

waze is a very good friend for all this s....

In Oz, drivers started to beat them up with hammers. Police then started to us vans on the side of the road, staffed by contractors......they soon stopped that as drivers retaliated with shotguns to the cameras!!!

44 minutes ago, rmacee said:

Stick WiFi in there and all images automatic transmitted to central system ..and a proximity device that photographs anything within 1 meter ..just thinking out loud !!

Be nice!! we need them gone, they're only tax gathering devices!!

Give him a medal !

Surely the speed limit for that stretch of road is not 120 kph but 90 kph.

 

One could save a lot of effort with a can of black spray paint.  

14 hours ago, naboo said:

2000 tickets per day from 2 cameras!

 

At 1000B a ticket (I heard, not sure) that is 2 million Baht a day!

500THB/Ticket

55 minutes ago, NE1 said:

Surely the speed limit for that stretch of road is not 120 kph but 90 kph.

 

I think the cameras start snapping at 120kph. Same as posted warning signs near cameras on Bangkok Outer ring road