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At least ten German cities received more than one million euros from speed camera fines last year. That is the result of a survey by the working group for traffic law of the German Lawyers’ Association (DAV) among major German cities.
Berlin – At least ten German cities earned more than a million euros in speed camera fines last year. That is the result of a survey by the working group for traffic law of the German Lawyers’ Association (DAV) among major German cities. The front runner is Hamburg with 17.1 million euros – there are also most of the measuring devices, namely 64, announced the DAV on Friday. Other “blitz millionaires” are Göttingen, Aachen, Dortmund, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Tübingen, Nuremberg, Dresden and Zwickau.
The working group on traffic law announced that flashes are mainly used to avoid exceeding the speed limit at frequent accident locations. Significantly fewer speed cameras would be used to prevent red light violations. Almost all participating cities stated that they gained far more from speed cameras than their installation and maintenance cost.
The DAV working group asked the 150 largest German cities about the number of speed cameras installed, the amount of income and their purpose. Only 46 cities answered, 18 did not release their data for publication.
According to the information, Cologne and Leipzig, for example, did not respond. However, the budgets showed that the lightning bolt revenue also played an important role here, it said. The Cologne draft budget for 2022 shows that fines for driving too fast and red light violations already brought in 17.6 million euros in 2019. In Leipzig, monitoring of stationary and moving traffic raised 11.6 million euros. (dpa)
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