The final offence, for 51km/h in a 50km/h zone, was found to be a clerical error, wherein the speed was incorrectly transcribed as 51km/h and not 57km/h.
Two of these matters related to provisional licence holders who were detected driving at 111km/h.We have explicit safeguards in place that prevent the issuing of notices for the trifling and low-level speeding offences.įive expiation notices were issued to drivers where it may be perceived they were infringed for travelling at only one kilometre over the speed limit: Our speed detection equipment is precise and reliable.
There was reference in the media that some road users had been being issued an expiation notice for exceeding the speed limit by one kilometre an hour. I want to reassure you that members of SAPOL do not issue fines to road users who have exceeded the speed limit by a mere few kilometres an hour.Ī detailed analysis of Expiation Notice Branch data for the 2016-2017 financial year published to the Data SA website, reveals that in fact no expiation notices were issued to road users for offences of exceeding the speed limit by a mere few kilometres an hour. Can I state emphatically – that this is certainly not the case. There has been information recently in the media that suggests some road users are being fined for driving as low as one kilometre over the speed limit. As the Commissioner of the South Australia Police (SAPOL) I would like to take this opportunity to personally advise the community as to how SAPOL undertakes speed detection duties.