The fight against road delinquency, and the heavy endemic mortality which accompanies it, still appears to the rank of the priorities of the police and the state.
With this in mind. Moreover, a new device of private radar cars, called “Dexter”, for “outsourced device”, has been circulating since this spring, as stealthy as possible, on the roads of the Var.
These vehicles are expected in the Alpes-Maritimes at the start of the school year.
All the road axes concerned – "day night", three trivialized cars
“The system is certainly operated by agents of a private company. Consequently, but the system is owned by the Statespecifies the director of cabinet of the prefect of Var, Joséphine Guigliano-Boutonnet, in charge of road safety. Similarly, Vehicles. radars belong to us and are fully regulated by our services – agents do not work on it – while fine shipments “day night”, three trivialized cars are automated at the national center. “
Concretely. “Three anonymized vehicles are circulating, day and night, on different Var road axes, on a predefined network of approximately 5,000 kilometers. It can be on the highway, national or departmental roads, the secondary network … It is the state services that define what are the tracks to be monitored, according to their accident-causing. is evolving.
The director of cabinet of the prefect of Var adds that“A technical margin of 10km/h is applied for limitations below 100km/h. 10% for speed limitations greater than 100km/h, twice that of fixed radars … With these margins, if you get caught, it is that it has been sought”.
Furthermore, do not expect a dazzling flash, demonstrating that a driver too in a hurry was spotted. These radar cars use an infrared flash. non-visible for flashed users, who do not necessarily realize, at the time, that their excessive “day night”, three trivialized cars speed has been spotted.
From three to twelve crimes identified in a month
If the system has been active for more than. three months – it started on May 1 – the prefectural services have no statistics on the number of speeds it has made it possible to identify in the department.
“The data is national”note Joséphine Guigliano-Boutonnet. However. “ We know that we went from three very high speed crimes identified in May, against twelve in June, in the Var, and that this device has a lot to do with it. “
Recall that it remains an unstoppable way to never be verbalized by these radar cars: respect speed limitations …