Attention Speed Cameras: Police Intensify Traffic Monitoring for Pentecost

The focus, in addition to the main traffic routes, is on accident-prone routes, popular excursion routes, as well as local and leisure traffic, including the secondary road network. 2,500 patrol vehicles, 400 motorcycles, 100 unmarked patrol cars with video tracking equipment, 400 stationary and mobile speed enforcement systems, 1,247 laser speed measuring devices, eleven distance measuring systems, 1,385 breathalyzers, and 1,429 preliminary alcohol test devices, 86 moped test stands, and 51 red light traffic monitoring systems ("traffic light radar") will be deployed.

529 Injured and One Fatality at Pentecost 2024

During the Pentecost weekend 2024, from Friday through Monday, 529 people were injured in 446 traffic accidents with personal injury, and one driver died. In 2023, three and in 2022, four road users lost their lives. In 2021, one person and in 2020, two people were fatally injured. 2021 and 2024, with one fatality each, recorded the best results since the introduction of the Ministry of the Interior's statistics in 1967. In contrast, the Pentecost weekends in the two worst years recorded 45 deaths (1979) and 44 deaths (1984).

Last year, 54,251 vehicle drivers were held accountable for exceeding the speed limit. 428 drivers were reported for drunk driving, and another 87 drug-impaired drivers "had to be immediately removed from traffic," reported the BMI. The driver's license of 296 drivers was temporarily revoked during the Pentecost weekend last year. Five vehicles were temporarily confiscated by the federal police as a result of extreme speeding violations.

(APA/Red.)

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