Philippines to show speeding cars on internet (AFP)

Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:01 AM

MANILA (AFP) – Manila authorities are putting up pictures of motion vehicles on an official website in an customary endeavor to kibosh drivers breaking the law on the Philippine capital's sometimes hair-raising roads.

The snapshots, along with a organisation of the speed of the vehicles and the instance and fellow the photographs were taken, are fashioned to dishonor or modify anxiousness people into meliorate driving.

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority website

(http://mmda.gov.ph/Speeding-Violators.html), shows a activity of cars, vans and buses, with authorise plates visible, as they are caught by anti-speeding cameras.

The chairman of the authority, Francis Tolentino, said in a statement the pictures were conception of a newborn automated grouping where drivers are dispatched their motion tickets after rather than being understood on the scene.

"Once captured by our cameras, there is no escape," Tolentino said.

More than 7,000 drivers have been caught on camera and dispatched tickets for prodigious the 60 kilometre (38-mile) per hour limit at that conception of the metropolis, he added.

There has been a modify in the number of accidents on the route as a result, he said without elaborating.

The automated picture grouping is only in force along the 12-kilometre Commonwealth Avenue, site of regular accidents cod to speeding.

But Tolentino said he is studying putting the grouping in locate in other major highways in the bustling municipality of over 11 meg people.


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