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More than 210,000 motorists have been caught speeding in the dark since all mobile speed cameras were fitted with infra-red technology.
The flash on the old cameras alerted motorists to their presence so they were ineffective and rarely used at night. By the end of 2012, police had fitted every mobile speed camera with infra-red technology, enabling them to take snaps without telltale flashing.
The hi-tech cameras have been out in the dark for almost 40,000 hours since then.
Figures provided to the Herald Sun by Victoria Police revealed mobile cameras used at night nabbed 115,790 motorists in 2012-13 and 98,714 in 2013-14. Those motorists paid more than $40 million in fines.
Most speeding motorists at night were nabbed by mobile cameras between 8pm and 9pm, with 35,590 fined in the past two years. The fewest were caught between 3am and 4am, with 1965 busted since July 2012. Almost 15,000 speeding motorists were snapped between midnight and 2am.
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