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Residents of the town of Riešė, on the outskirts of Vilnius, said that some of them were afraid to pick up their smartphone and check their e-mail at night; such amounts were reported as violations and fines.
In this city, a speedometer was built last year in the area where the speed limit is limited to 30 km / h, but the residents of Riešė began to receive fines only at the end of March. In total, according to police, 37.4 thousand were registered with this meter. Traffic violations (KET).
Residents of the city of Čekoniškės spoke about the second such speedometer, for which fines for KET violations also began to travel only at the end of March. Also late last year, a new crime recording device built by the Lithuanian Highway Administration (LAKD) appeared here.
In total, said Saulius Jansonas, communication manager for LAKD’s Department of International Relations and Communication, 70 speed gauges appeared in Lithuania last year.
You may have to wait 2 years
As the LAKD representative explained, in Lithuania the law states that the administration of fines can last two years. So the fact that the speedometers have been “silent” for several months, and the reports of all crimes committed during that time have only been released now, is not legally bad.
Yet drivers call it absurd for so long that a fine can be imposed for a KET violation. According to them, today automated systems are used, officials no longer need to manually select data, sort it, write protocols, so the period must be shortened.
Launched but not connected to the system
As explained to Delfi Ramūnas Matonis, Head of the Communication Department of the Police Department, the two violations recorded by the speedometer in Riešė accumulated for a simple reason: the device was not connected to the Registry of Administrative Offenses.
“As a result, the data could not be processed. And as soon as it was registered in the registry, it was processed automatically and sent immediately to the offenders,” he explained.
The same was confirmed by S. Janson. According to him, the speedometer in Riešė was metrologically inspected on October 26 last year and began operating on October 27. However, the agreement with the Department of Informatics and Communications (IRD) to connect the device to the Registry of Administrative Offenses was only signed on March 5 of this year.
“Since March 5, all the registered infractions have been automatically transferred to the registry,” said the interlocutor, noting that, however, the infractions are presented within the legal deadlines, since the administration of the infractions can take up to 24 months.
Nobody is blinking
More than one driver, who complained about the large number of protocols, also noted that if the device had blinked, they would have known that they had committed a violation, and they had realized how they were driving and at what speed. However, there is no flash of light when the speedometer perpetuates the violation.
“The new speedometers use infrared illumination that is invisible to the human eye. Therefore, when a violation is recorded, the flash does not blind the driver, ”said S. Janson.
In addition, these devices on the roads not only record speeding in both directions, but also perpetuate other infractions. For example, if you drive a vehicle that does not have a valid fitness test or is not covered by mandatory liability insurance, you will also drive without paying a road use fee.
The full map of the new speedometers can be found here.
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