While Baltimore County officials are still determining where they want speed cameras, state officials already know, and will flip the switch on two speed cameras Thursday — the first day a new state law allowing the technology goes into effect.

State Highway Administration officials announced Wednesday that three speed cameras will be placed in work zones in the state. Two of them will be in Baltimore County — on Interstate 695 at Charles Street and on I-95 between I-895 and White Marsh Boulevard.

The third will be placed in Prince George's County, on I-95 between routes 198 and 216.

Signs will be placed along each route warning of the speed camera enforcement. A trailer that displays the posted speed limit and the speed of passing vehicles will be placed along the highways ahead of the speed cameras, according to a press release from the State Highway Administration.

Vehicles traveling more than 12 mph over the posted speed limit will be issued warnings for the first 30 days. After that, violators will receive tickets carrying a fine of $40. The cameras will provide 24-hour coverage.

State officials say that on average during the last 10 years, 12 people were killed and 1,484 people were injured in crashes involving work zones. Last year, there were seven people killed, and 1,067 people injured in more than 2,000 crashes in work zones, according to statistics released by the state.

Those statistics do not specify how many of the accidents were speed related.

The two highway work zone cameras are not part of the Baltimore County's speed camera enforcement efforts.

The county plans to install 15 cameras around school zones based on a law passed in early September.

A list of locations could be made available in the next week.

Tickets for those locations will be issued only for violations that occur between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.

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user comments (4)

user davidoftowson says...

"Vehicles traveling more than 12 mph over the posted speed limit..." I find it pretty amusing that the operational definition of the posted speed limit is now explicit: "Don't go more than 12 mph faster than this."

Posted 8:06 PM, 09.30.09

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user stevetowson says...

I guess they figure that's the operational margin of error for these things.

Posted 8:31 PM, 09.30.09

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user augieboy says...

695, 895 and 95, humph, not meant to be a money grab! operating 24 hours a day...BAHHAAA

Posted 11:20 AM, 10.01.09

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user johnnyu says...

Looks like I have something else to say when they call my house asking for donations to the Policemans Ball. Next up: Littering Cam. Drinking and Driving Cam. But yet no one notices a dead body getting thrown in the manhole system for two years.

Posted 10:49 AM, 10.07.09

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