Mobile speed cameras are likely to be close by wherever you drive in Wales, looking to catch drivers breaking the legal speed limit and deter others from doing so. GoSafe has a number of marked vans and motorcycles spread throughout towns and cities which are used to detect speeding offences and other road traffic violations.
They are staffed by fully trained police staff or police officers, who monitor the speed of vehicles passing the vans. Once they form the opinion that the vehicle is exceeding the speed limit, they use equipment to record it, often resulting in prosecution. A device called a Speedscope can be trained on vehicles up to 1,000 metres away, although most work is carried out far closer, GoSafe says.
The time, date, speed, distance, site coding and whether the vehicle is travelling towards or away from the checkpoint is recorded on the image to produce to the offending driver. Get stories like this straight to your inbox with our newsletters.
