If you are used to driving on the road, you know that there are many speed cameras everywhere in France. In fact, no region is spared from this, especially considering that the government is increasing investments to create more and more of them. And this, surprisingly, will continue throughout this year, particularly with the development of tower radars. It is enough to track the smallest speed violation, even if less than 5 km/h is no longer punishable by the withdrawal of points from January 1.

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Numerous damages

This is not surprising, since most motorists unanimously hate speed cameras. And they often bear the brunt of the anger of some of them, who sometimes do not hesitate to express it by damaging the cabins. In 10 years, there will be no fewer of them 50,000 acts of vandalism which were recorded throughout France. And among them, more than 40% were committed during the “yellow vest” crisis. And it costs the state about 185 million euros, compared to 8.2 billion euros in revenue, according to Radars-Auto.com.

Unequal departments

But then, in which departments are we most against these stationary cabins? According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it’s on the Marne that there is the most damage, with 760 acts of vandalism. It is followed by the Oise, then the Aisne, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Hare and the Seine and the Marne. On the other hand, Guyana and Val-de-Marne have the fewest disabled radars, as well as the territories of Belfort and Meuse.

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