The 14 fixed radars arranged by the Directorate General of Traffic on the roads of the Balearic Islands have ‘hunted’ this year until April to 13,965 vehicles for speeding, which is 1,965 vehicles per year16 daily sanctions.
The statistics provided to EFE by the Provincial Traffic Headquarters places the road to Sant Antoni (EI600), in Ibiza, as the one with the highest number of infractions.
The radar placed at the point kilometer 9.6 of the Sant Antoni road accumulated 4,387 fines between January and April, a lower figure than that recorded in the same interval last year, which concentrated 5,680 sanctions.
The next road with the most radar fines is the highway from Palma to Alcúdia (MA13), which at kilometer 16 has recorded 2,223 infractions, almost triple the 749 accumulated in the first four months of last year.
The third is the Campos-Felanitx (MA5120), which at point 6’6 already has 1,172 fines, a number very similar to the 1,218 of the previous year.
Others from Ibiza
The fourth road with the highest number of speed camera fines is the one of Sant Josep to Sant Antoni, in Ibiza, which totals 1,026 fines at kilometer 7 and 704 at kilometer 15, where last year it accumulated 1,813.
The next radars that have issued the most fines in the first four months of the year are, in this order, those at kilometer 15’5 of the Palma-Andratx Poniente Highway, with 991 sanctions, the sant Carles road in Ibiza (903), the Pollença road (703), the Levante Highway (596), kilometer 23 of the Palma-Andratx road (322), the general road of Menorca passing through Es Mercadal (290), the Manacor-Porto Cristo road (283), the general road of Menorca at the Alaior exit (245) and kilometer 9 from Palma to Sa Pobla (120).
Ibiza, where the most fines are issued
Ibiza is the island where more fines by radar has put Traffic this year, 7.020, although the figure is down 18% from the 8,306 accumulated last year through April.
In contrast, radar fines have increased by 35% in Mallorca, going from 4,750 to 6,410 this year.
In Menorca the fines have dropped significantly, by 54.5%, from 827 to 535.
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