11 Apr, 2019 @ 11:42
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Three of the five most prolific speed cameras in Spain are in Malaga

Speed cameras in Spain

THREE of the five most prolific speed cameras in Spain are in Malaga, new figures have revealed.

According to the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), the camera at kilometre 246 on the A-7 in El Palo, heading towards Almeria, is the third most active in the country.

The latest stats show that in the year 2017, the camera snapped 49,520 penalties.

This was followed by a camera on the same motorway, in Rincon de la Victoria, which snapped 47,000 speedsters.

Rounding out the top five was the much-hated camera just before the Carlos Haya tunnel entrance heading from Malaga towards Torremolinos, which flashed 36,741 times in 2017.

The three Malaga cameras are all in areas with 80km/hr limits, and handed out a total of 133,261 fines in 2017.

They were surpassed only by two machines located on the A-44 of Jaén (76,300 fines) and in the N-VI of Segovia (59,200).

The DGT collected €70 million from such cameras in Spain in 2017.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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