Fines and Penalties

• Evidence
• Verification
• Fines

Infringement notices are issued when a road safety camera system captures clear evidence of a speed, red-light or unregistered vehicle offence.

Before an infringement notice is issued, a rigorous process is applied involving:

• consideration of the available evidence
• the completion of all necessary verification procedures.

Tolerances

Before a driver is issued with a speeding infringement, the driver receives a legislative tolerance of either two or three kilometres per hour, depending on the camera type used. The legislative tolerance is three kilometres per hour or 3% less if travelling over 100km/h, in the case of mobile cameras and two kilometres per hour or 2% less if travelling over 100km/h in the case of fixed cameras.

Tolerance is the difference between the speed detected by a road safety camera and the speed at which Victoria Police allege the driver was travelling.

This tolerance is automatically applied.

The tolerance applied always favours the driver.

Fines

Further information about the fines and penalties that apply for different types of infringements is available on the Fines Victoria website.

All net revenue collected from speeding and red-light camera infringements is directed back into road safety infrastructure.