After being tagged as one of the high-risk intersections in Queensland, Lutwyche Road at the intersection with Kedron Park Road in Kedron has been installed with a combined red light and speed camera system.
The new system aims to minimise the incidence of speeding and red light violations at the Lutwyche Road intersection. The combined red light and speed cameras can detect both red light and speeding offences.
Violators can be fined for both offences if they get caught by the system, which runs 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Speeding motorists can also be detected whether the traffic light is green, red or yellow.
Potential Crash Area
The Lutwyche Road and Kedron Park Road intersection has been selected after the Department of Transport and Main Roads investigated intersections with the worst crash and potential crash data.
Data revealed 42 people died and over 3,000 figured in injuries due to crashes at signalised intersections around Queensland in the last five years.
Motoring club RACQ lauded the move by the State Government to install the new combined red light and speed cameras. The group recognises that T-bone crashes are some of the most dangerous crash types, possibly leading to death or serious injury.
Steve Spalding, RACQ Head of Technical and Safety Policy, believes that the red light and speed camera system would help reduce serious crashes.
“Research has shown a 30 percent reduction in serious crash risk at locations where this technology is already used,” said Mr Spalding.
Aside from the Kedron intersection, the combined red light and speed cameras have also been installed at the following intersections, selected based on crash history:
- Glenlyon Street, Gladstone Central at the intersection with Tank Street
- Anzac Avenue Road, Kippa-Ring at
intersection with Boardman Road - Morayfield Road at the intersection with Caboolture River Road, Morayfield
- Lutwyche Road at the intersection with Norman Avenue, Lutwyche
- Old Cleveland Road at the intersection with Cavendish Road, Coorparoo
- Smith Street at the intersection with Kumbari Avenue, Southport
- Bermuda Street at the intersection with Christine Avenue, Burleigh Waters
