The Municipality of Acquappesa, in the Cosenza area, puts the overtaking device for the automatic and real time detection of the unauthorized overtaking maneuvers along the highway 18 Tyrrhenian. The technological device will be active from 4 August, just as you go to increase traffic for summer holidays. The municipal administration presented the overtaking as a tool to guarantee road safety, checking compliance with overtaking prohibitions and sanctioning infringements.
«The instrumentation is equipped with all the necessary authorizations. Ministerial, prefectural and Anas, “says the mayor of Acquappesa, Francesco Tripicchio. “We could also install it in the previous months – he adds -, but we waited for the latest updates of the legislation to avoid risks”. The point chosen for the installation on the state road that crosses the Tyrrhenian municipality has long been attacked for its danger. Over the years, numerous infringements have been ascertained and road accidents have occurred, even with serious consequences. “It is a point – the mayor still says – which in both directions offers motorists temptation for overtaking, but also for reckless outputs from the state road ».
The overtaking of Acquappasa involves the ascertainment of overtaking infractions without the presence of the authorities who ascertain the infringement. From a point of view of road safety, the service adds to the presence of a “scout speed” system to the presence of the “Scout Speed” system for the assessment of the violations of the speed limits.