Contract for mobile speed cameras signed

Updated: 20:01, Friday, 20 November 2009

The Government has announced the introduction of 45 new mobile speed cameras which it says will be on the roads all over the country by the middle of next year.

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Six One News: Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, reports that the mobile speed cameras will record 7,000 hours of footage every month
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News At One: Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, says the cameras will be mobile but will focus on areas that gardaí have identified as accident prone
News At One: Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, says the cameras will be mobile but will focus on areas that gardaí have identified as accident prone

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The Minister for Justice, the Minister for Transport and the Garda Commissioner signed a €16m annual contract in Templemore today with the commercial company that will operate the system.

The cameras were first promised 11 years ago and while Dermot Ahern accepted that there was a long delay, he said the cameras would save lives.

The announcement was welcomed by the Road Safety Authority, which said in the last three years, speeding killed 157 people and injured 310.

  • News At One: Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, says the cameras will be mobile but will focus on areas that gardaí have identified as accident prone

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    20 November 2009

    Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, says the cameras will be mobile but will focus on areas that gardaí have identified as accident prone

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