Speed booths are a hot topic among motorists. One of them took matters into his own hands and blew up a fixed camera trap.
In Denmark, there are fixed speed cameras – the so-called starling boxes – spread over 11 lines. Not everyone is into that sort of thing. Not even abroad.
In Germany, a motorist got so mad at being flashed at 100 km/h that it cost the life of a speed camera. At least that's what the local police in Cologne suspect happened.
The speed camera, permanently mounted on a stretch of the A4 motorway, blew into the air with what must have been a proper bang.
– It is unclear which explosive it is. Nothing was left behind, a police spokesman told the newspaper .
It was 03:42 when another motorist informed the police that the camera, which costs many thousands of euros, had been blown up. The force of the explosion threw the trailer that the camera was on several meters away.
– We hope that we have pictures of the perpetrator on the hard drive." The speed limit at this time is 100 km/h, says the police.
At home, the fixed speed cameras have also been vandalized. And even several times. Since then, the government has responded to motorists again by e.g. to purchase a record number of mobile photo vans.
Camera vans that can now also flash a type of road user for whom the police have never been able to issue a speeding ticket. At least not from a photo van. Read more about it here .
The photo vans and the police's pursuit of speeding offenders in general are, by the way, furiously good business. At least the Danish state. Boosted has previously been able to report that almost DKK 700 million rolled into the state treasury in 2020 alone. In other words, only because there was too much speed on the Danish roads.
