There are currently 14 mobile speed cameras in operation in Swansea, and their locations have been revealed. GoSafe has a number of marked vans and motorcycles spread throughout the city used to capture speeding offences and other road traffic violations.
They are staffed by fully trained police staff or police officers, who monitor the speed of vehicles passing the vans. Once they form the opinion that the vehicle is exceeding the speed limit, they use equipment to record it, resulting in prosecution.
A device called a Speedscope can be trained on vehicles up to 1,000 metres away, although most work is carried out far closer, GoSafe says. The time, date, speed, distance, site coding and whether the vehicle is travelling towards or away from the checkpoint is recorded on the image to produce to the offending driver. We recently reported how speed cameras installed along two busy roads in Swansea to clamp down on speeding and protect the safety of the public still aren't operational years after they were first installed. You can read more about that by clicking here. Get Swansea stories straight to your inbox with our newsletter.
