Over 1,200 fines for speeding, 51 thousand vehicles checked with just under 80 licenses withdrawn because motorists exceeded the speed limit by more than 40 kilometers per hour.
These are just some data from the balance sheet in the first three months of the "Nuoro safe roads" campaign on road safety promoted by the municipal administration of Nuoro and carried out by the local police command with the use of speed cameras and license plate system which led to a reduction of accidents by 45 percent, and the collapse of those with fatal outcomes: if in the first half of the year there were 4 deaths in the city, in the second half of the year there were no victims.
A campaign born after a start to the year full of accidents, some fatal, involving pedestrians.
From 21 August (start date of the surveys) to 30 November 2023, 51 thousand vehicles were subjected to mobile speed camera checks. The violations confirmed for speeding were 1253 (just over 2%), of which 76 exceeded 40 km/h compared to the limit imposed in the town center (i.e. vehicles proceeding at over 70 km/h on roads with speed limit at 30 and over 90 km/h on roads with a speed limit of 50).
A total of 936 points from the guidance document. But the surprise comes from the license plate system, a camera that reads license plates and reveals in real time whether the cars are insured. There are 432 cars stopped by the local police without an inspection (of which 17 were not repeatedly inspected). Fifty-seven cars were seized because they had no insurance, 5 with fake insurance. In 315 cases the motorists were driving without a licence, 61 were caught driving with a mobile phone while out of 250 breathalyzer tests carried out, 27 motorists (over 10 percent) were drunk driving.
A safety campaign that has led to a 45 percent drop in accidents, where the first half of the year was tragic with 4 deaths, the number of those detected by the local police since the beginning of the year is 203, of which 140 in the first half alone semester, with a reduction, in the period from July to November, of 45% compared to those that occurred in the first (4 victims in the first semester and zero in the remaining period, 213 people injured).
