Speed Watch

Speed Watch is a partnership involving volunteer citizens, police and ICBC designed to help reduce speed-related crashes by raising public awareness of the actual speeds drivers are traveling.

The program originated in Washington State King County's Sheriff's Department and has been in British Columbia since the early 1990s.

Volunteers use portable radar equipment and electronic digital board to monitor speeds in neighborhoods, particularly school and playground zones. Drivers get instant feedback on their speed displayed on the reader-board as they pass. Experience has shown that more than 70 per cent of drivers who are traveling 10km/h over the speed limit slow down when they see a speed-reader board.

Speed Watch helps address traffic and speeding problems through:

• creating public awareness about road safety
• community action to address speed-related problems
• the collection of speed-related data
• assisting police to determine speed problem locations.

For more information about this program or to volunteer, please email Matt Rutherford or call 250-592-2424