An affluent Cheshire town plagued by boy racers and supercars is fighting back using a state-of-the-art noise-activated camera. And it caught 60 drivers over the decibel limit in the first few weeks of it being installed.
The acoustic camera has been put up on the A34 Pendleton Way following a series of incidents in Wilmslow and Alderley Edge involving revving engines and speeding cars in an area plagued by 'boy racers' in supercars, CheshireLive reports.
The camera records noise above an acceptable level and identifies vehicles causing the disturbance, giving the police and Cheshire East Council key information about the worst offenders and enabling enforcement action to be taken against them. Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer told a meeting of the police and crime panel on Thursday (December 22): "In those early days we were working closely with Cheshire East Council and we picked up something like 60 offenders who were breaking the decibel limits on that road.
