Newly installed mobile phone detection cameras are having a field day in South Australia and  Victoria.

According to a report South Australia’s new mobile phone detection cameras have nabbed almost 31,000 motorists using their phone in the first month of a trial operation. 

New South Wales was the first state in Australia to implement the cameras in late 2019, and in their first week of operation, they caught more than 3000 drivers across the state.

The cameras have not been without controversy, with some drivers complaining they are an invasion of privacy due to the detailed imagery they capture.  There has been a claim that they can capture a woman’s underwear.

Victoria’s caught in the region of 10,000 people within a short period, and we thought we should add the warning that the West Australian State Government claims it will have installed the most advanced road safety cameras in the nation later this year.

The West Australia State Government is calling tenders for the supply of six state-of-the-art cameras as part of a multi-million-dollar road safety blitz.

They’ll be capable of catching speeding motorists and picking up drivers using their mobiles — and even passengers not wearing seat belts.

It will be interesting to see if there is a warning period in WA as in South Australia.

In South Australia there has been a three-month grace period with 31,000 warnings sent.

Of this number, 836 drivers would have lost their licences after being caught four or more times.  

Another two drivers were papped on 18 occasions, one on 16 occasions and another four on 15 separate occasions.