Speed ​​cameras, Baroni lawyer: “Cassation clarifies, the law must be respected”

“The legislation on the installation of speed cameras for years has provided for a pre-warning, both for fixed and mobile ones. The speed detection system on moving cars has always been illegitimate, but the authorities have always closed a Watch out for this. Now the Supreme Court has made a point and established that the rules that apply to fixed locations are valid for these methods of detection “. The lawyer Massimiliano Baroni, a lawyer specialized in administrative sanctions for violations of the highway code, commented to the Adnkronos on the recent sentence of the Supreme Court, which declared a high fine with an unreported mobile speed camera illegitimate. As for the way in which to report this type of speed camera, the so-called ‘Scout Speed’, the lawyer does not consider it appropriate to use panels with luminous messages, to be installed on the same car, suggested by the Supreme Court. “The spirit of the law that provides for prior warning is to prevent the risk that cars, if they notice the speed camera, make sudden and abrupt braking causing rear-end collisions. For this, a distance is needed between the warning and the speed camera. of two cars – he explains – the one carrying the Scout speed and another with the signaling panel in front of it at least 500 meters away. In this case the signaling would be legitimate. speed cameras are the main source of income for municipalities, perhaps an extra expense to comply with the law should do it “, he stresses. And on the possibility that the cancellation of the sanction by the judges of Piazza Cavour causes an avalanche of appeals, Burioni observes that “the decision caused a sensation, but the Scout Speed ​​is a much less widespread tool than the classic speed cameras. Certainly later on. there will be some recourse to the sentence of the Supreme Court, but not an avalanche “.