Drivers in one Arizona city are racking up a stunning number of speeding violations — about one every three minutes — due to the use of new technology that’s rolling out nationwide.
Officials installed a series of speed-monitoring cameras throughout Phoenix in late February. The new initiative, aimed at catching speeding drivers and reducing fatal accidents, came with a month-long grace period during which the city only sent out warnings, not citations.
But since that warning period expired in late March, more than 30,000 legal notices and citations have been sent to drivers accused of speeding, a spokesperson for the city’s Street Transportation Department told AZCentral. That works out around one every three minutes…