Excerpts from article by Lindsey Collom - Dec. 3, 2008 The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that it has issued 40,401 speeding tickets in the first two months of its speed-enforcement camera program. That's a windfall of at least $6.6 million for the state if all the violators pay up.
During eight hours on Nov. 26, cameras snapped photos of 505 motorists and ticketed more than 400.
If 40,000 sounds like a lot of tickets, know that the cameras have snapped even more photos. Drivers have activated the cameras 166,176 times on freeways statewide since the program began Sept. 26, state officials said.
Three out of four images captured by stationary and mobile speed-enforcement cameras this fall were discarded. Bart Graves, a DPS spokesman, said tickets are scrapped if they don't clearly show the driver or the license plate, and that happens frequently.
The disparity between activations and citations will lessen over time, Graves said. Contractors and DPS employees are still fine-tuning the system and adjusting camera angles.
About 60 cameras are in use. Across the state, they hope to have 100 cameras in use by February.
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