The first turret radar has just been installed in Guadeloupe in Gosier, and it is the precursor of a series which will include around a hundred turret radars throughout Guadeloupe. With 30 people killed on the road and a mortality three times higher than that of mainland France, the Interior Ministry has chosen Guadeloupe as the pilot department for the deployment of this new generation of automated control devices.
A 4-meter high mast on which is placed a cabin which contains a control device, composes these new radars which will replace the 20 fixed radars which are in service. They will be installed throughout the archipelago, with a control device for five turrets, or twenty radars which flash, as is currently the case. The control devices will be regularly moved from one turret to another, so that drivers do not know which radars are activated.
The first movement of control units should take place between mid-November and early December, when 10 turret radars will be in service. The speed cameras will only flash the speeding tickets, first, then they will be used to check if the driver is wearing the seat belt, if he uses his phone while driving or if he respects the safety distances. By the start of 2020, 35 turret radars will be installed every 10 kilometers in Guadeloupe, for a main road network of a thousand kilometers, while in mainland France, this type of radar is installed every 440 kilometers. _RM
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