Nursing a baby while driving, checking their phone while swilling a beer and smoking from a glass pipe are just some of the deeds WA’s next-generation road cameras have captured in the past few months.
Police Minister Reece Whitby revealed in an estimates hearing on Tuesday the cameras, which capture drivers from above, have picked up more than 100,000 offences by drivers across the state.
Smoking from glass pipe while not wearing a seatbelt. Image captured by WA’s new road safety cameras.
These offences range from not wearing a seatbelt to using mobiles while driving to more ludicrous things, like a passenger feeding their unrestrained baby while the driver is on their phone.
One image held up by Whitby shows a man smoking from a glass pipe while another showed a man with a carload of people with his mobile phone on his lap while holding a beer in his hand.
Another photo shows a P-plater on his mobile while the passenger steers for him.
Whitby said the behaviours captured were shocking but what was even more so was the number of recidivist offenders, with one man caught offending 81 times since January.
“We’re seeing people doing the wrong thing again and again,” he said.
Police Minister Reece Whitby.
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