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Tougher rules catch out Queensland motorists

he near doubling of the number of fines for low-level speeding netted the QLD Government an extra $32 million.

The controversial police speeding crackdown has led to hundreds of thousands more Queenslanders slapped with fines from mobile cameras than fixed.

Since News Corp Australia started examining the fallout from the cut to tolerance margins for speeding, a further $32 million of extra fines from mobile cameras has emerged.

In the first full year of the new rules there was a 92 per cent surge in motorists caught driving up to 13km/h over the limit, the lowest speeding ticket issued by police.

Data supplied by the Queensland Police Service showed an extra 220,898 low-level speeding tickets were issued from mobile speed cameras last year, costing motorists between $146 and $151 each.

The state's 3597 speed camera locations include overt and covert mobile cameras and cameras in marked and unmarked cars and vans.

These 220,898 mobile tickets were in addition to the extra 34,000 tickets issued to drivers from the state's 22 fixed speed cameras in the same period.

The near doubling of the number of fines for low-level speeding netted the State Government an extra $32 million.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating conceded the QPS did not have any proof that the speed-camera crackdown was keeping us safer on the roads.

By contrast, the number of tickets given to drivers who broke the speed limit by between 14 and 40km/h fell last year when compared to 2013.

On Wednesday, Acting Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating conceded the QPS did not have any proof that the speed-camera crackdown was keeping us safer on the roads.

Mr Keating said 'data is coming across my desk the whole time" but he was unaware of the massive spike in fines for low-level speeding until News Corp Australia brought it to his attention.

"I hadn't seen the data until late last night," he said on Wednesday. In June 2013, when Commissioner Ian Stewart announced the first stage of the speed crackdown, he said "we hope we won't issue one extra ticket as a result of reducing the tolerance level".

In 2014, mobile camera fines were valued at $100 million, with more than two-thirds of this ($67 million) made up of tickets for low-level speeding fines. Fixed camera fines were an additional $26 million.This money is spent on road safety and road construction, after government 'administration costs" are paid.