Control with ‘MONO cam’
On Thursday, during checks in Zeeland and Noord-Brabant, the police caught a ‘quite high number’ of motorists with a phone in their hand behind the wheel. They are all automatically fined.
Nearly three hundred motorists were caught holding a mobile phone while driving during checks in Zeeland and North Brabant on Thursday. The police carried out checks on the A58 between Kruiningen and Ulvenhout, the A16 between Hazeldonk and Dordrecht and the A17 between Moerdijk and Roosendaal. The checks on Thursday lasted about seven hours. A lot of cars pass in that time frame, yet a police spokesman calls the number of three hundred ‘quite high’. “Especially given all the prevention and information campaigns about the danger of using your mobile phone in traffic in recent years.”
The police action on the A58 was carried out with the ‘MONO-cam’, which has been in use for two years. Software is built into this camera that recognizes drivers holding a mobile phone. According to the spokesman, many more offenders have been caught since the use of this device. “It takes a lot less manpower, we just set up such a camera and it does most of the work.” Motorists caught on Thursday will be fined €380. Next year that fine will be €418.
Earlier this month it appeared that the number of fines for phone use behind the wheel has increased. In 2022, 115,575 such fines will have been handed out, more than 30,000 more than a year earlier.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl