Speed cameras set just 100m apart on Sunshine Coast

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Speed cameras set just 100m apart on Sunshine Coast

Kathleen Donaghey May 23, 2010 12:00AM 12 comments

POLICE have been accused of double-dipping after a speed van was deployed 100m from a fixed speed camera to catch unsuspecting motorists.

The van was stationed on Nicklin Way at Warana on the Sunshine Coast last week, in front of a fixed camera introduced in February.

Police have confirmed they rotate speed vans to sites within metres of the Sunshine Coast's two fixed speed cameras.

The camera on the Sunshine Motorway near Mountain Creek is shouldered by two speed van deployment sites, about 800m in either direction.

While Gold Coast police say they don't double up with speed vans near the two fixed cameras on the Gold Coast Highway, Inspector Darren Soppa said police targeted those areas with hand-held radars.

"People know where the fixed cameras are and slow down and speed up," he said.

"Sometimes we do tactical deployment for that purpose."