Cutting-edge Safety Cameras Deployed To Great Southern
Cutting-edge safety cameras that can detect mobile phone and seatbelt offences will soon be appearing on Great Southern roads.
Two safety camera trailers will be set up in Albany and rotate around the Great Southern region as part of the next phase of the Cook Government’s safety camera rollout.
These new safety cameras are the most advanced in the nation and have the capability of detecting multiple offences simultaneously, including speeding, illegal mobile phone use, and the improper use of a seatbelt.
They can also be deployed to detect towed and heavy vehicles limited to 100km/h speed limits as well as spot and point to point average speed.
Four safety camera trailers operating in the Perth metropolitan area and fixed cameras on the Kwinana Freeway detected nearly107,000 mobile phone and seatbelt offences since January.
From 10 June, the Road Safety Commission will issue caution notices to drivers in the Great Southern region detected committing a mobile phone or seatbelt offence by the safety camera trailers.
The purpose of a caution notice period is to inform the community about the capabilities of the new type of safety camera technology, to educate about the dangers of distracted driving and not wearing a seatbelt, and to give drivers an opportunity to change their behaviour before enforcement commences.
The next phase of the safety camera rollout will see two of the safety camera trailers based in Geraldton and deployed across the Mid West region.
The safety camera program is funded through the Road Trauma Trust Account, which sees 100 per cent of safety camera infringements allocated to projects and programs which reduce injuries and deaths on Western Australian roads.
As stated by Police and Road Safety Minister Reece Whitby:
“Regional drivers are overrepresented in serious crashes and the rollout of these safety cameras is about saving lives.
“These cutting-edge tecnhology has been succesful in the Perth metropolitan area and now dangerous drivers are bein put on notice across regional WA.
“The Great Southern is a vast and beautiful part of our State and we want to to keep vistors and residents safe.
“My message is simple: put the phone away, wear your seatbelt properly, and slow down. Break the rules, and you will be caught.”
As stated by Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner:
“Regional road fatalities represented 60 per cent of the road toll in 2024 with three in every four serious crashes on regional WA roads involving a local driver either within their own local government area or an adjacent one.
“A key focus of the safety camera program is ensuring safety cameras are used on a range of regional roads, particularly those where people have sadly lost their lives.
“Camera locations are guided by crash data and advice from the WA Police Force and Main Roads Western Australia to ensure a wide spread of geographical deterrence, but the message is: ‘anywhere, anytime’, so put the phone away and click that seatbelt in.”
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/Cook Labor Government/Cutting-edge-safety-cameras-deployed-to-the-Great-Southern-20250611