Be careful in Malaga with running these four red lights: cameras start issuing fines

Many drivers were wondering this Friday about the new signs featuring a red traffic light and a radar symbol... at places like Valle Inclán Avenue. The curiosity is resolved with the official notification of the implementation of a new fine system. Thus, the Malaga City Council, through the Mobility Area, will launch next Monday, September 22, the six 'photo-red' devices that have been installed to increase road safety.

In addition to the aforementioned avenue, where there is already a speed camera that controls speed (just under 3,000 fines last year), they have also been placed at the metro crossing located at the intersection between Jiménez Fraud and Louis Pasteur Avenue. There are four intersections in total.

In the case of the metro crossing, this measure already reinforces the luminous, acoustic, and conventional signals that regulate the intersection.

Specifically, at the metro crossing, two devices have been installed, and on Valle Inclán Avenue, four more. The latter, one at the confluence with Camino de Suarez (thus controlling the two lanes of eastbound traffic); two at the confluence with Simón Bolívar Avenue (one westbound and one eastbound); and another at the confluence with La Palmilla Avenue, controlling the two eastbound traffic lanes.

The goal of this measure is to increase the safety of these four intersections and reduce the road accidents recorded on these roads.

The System

The photo-red systems consist of installing cameras around the traffic light intersections to ensure that vehicles do not run the red light or start moving before it turns green.

The system is designed to be directly connected to the regulator and to take photographs when the traffic light is red and a vehicle crosses the stop line of that traffic light. If the traffic light is green or amber, the equipment does not activate.

Night and Day

The detection devices consist of two high-performance cameras that, synchronized with the traffic light regulator at the metro intersection with that road, detect when a vehicle has crossed the stop line with the traffic light on red. When this happens, the license plate of the vehicle or motorcycle is captured, along with several photos, before, during, and after the infraction, and a short video to check the event to support the sanctioning body.

The device operates both day and night by having additional infrared lighting and is capable of detecting infractions in both lanes.