Whether they are fixed or mobile, to flash speeding tickets or burnt red lights, no less than ten different types of automatic radars are now rife on the roads of France! However, their performance varies from a simple to a hundredfold! Which are the most effective?
It’s never too late to do it right. Road Safety has finally published the 2020 toll of traffic violations, a year during which a little more than 24 million offenses were detected, both by automatic devices and by the various police forces, including municipal ones (excluding parking meters, since these are no longer fines but Post-Parking Packages).
![traffic offenses in 2020](https://www.largus.fr/images/images/avis-contravention1_1.jpg)
Of this total, the automated control devices alone made it possible to observe 12.9 million infringements (+ 3% in one year), knowing that the radars flashed at the same time 18.5 million times. That is to say about 30% of infringement messages which did not make it possible to draw up a notice of contravention for various reasons: radar blinded intentionally or not, illegible plates, doubt about the vehicle at fault, foreign plates outside the European Union, etc. .
29% fewer flashes than in 2017
Despite the implementation of new, more sophisticated radars, it is still 10.5% fewer infringement messages than in 2019, again for several reasons: sharp drop in traffic due to the two confinements and the multiple periods of curfew, equipment still inoperative after the wave of vandalism that raged during the yellow vests crisis of 2018/2019. In comparison with the record year 2017, the number of flashes in 2020 thus shows a plunge of 29%, with the number of radars however almost equivalent.
With the fleet reaching 4,224 automated devices at the end of 2020, this means that each of them flashed an average of 4,383 times, or 12 times per day. But beware, this average hides huge disparities. Among the ten types of equipment scattered along the roads of France, some border on overwork while others are on the watch peacefully. Here, from the most active to the quietest, the list of the effectiveness of these ten kinds of materials.
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