Starting from mid-May, intelligent cameras on railway crossings will be put into operation17/4/2020|Press releasesStarting from 18 May another intelligent camera will be put into operation on a railway crossing. After a pilot project in Úvaly u Prahy, another camera will be in operation on the railway crossing in Uhersko, monitoring the drivers’ offences. Records from this device will help the Police of the Czech Republic in offence proceedings led against offenders. In extreme cases, an unruly driver can lose his/her driving license. “As we have previously announced, this is not a repressive but a preventive step, to which we are led by the still high number of very undisciplined drivers who behave in a risky way at the railway crossings.” “The fact that this is not a hidden bullying of the drivers is also evidenced by the fact that the list of railway crossings at which these devices will be in operation is publicly available,” said the head of the railway administration organisation SŽDC Jiří Svoboda. Until now, footage from the existing cameras on railway crossings has not allowed to give direct fines for unlawful conduct of drivers. This is going to change now. The system, whose pilot program was launched in Úvaly u Prahy more than two years ago, can not only record what is happening at the crossings, but its outputs will make it possible to fine unruly drivers. Based on an agreement and cooperation with the respective municipality, the camera systems can be supplemented with radars which will record cases when the maximum speed limit of the passing road vehicles is exceeded during the idle mode of the crossing. The described technology will be deployed at 14 crossings, mainly on the railway corridor between Pardubice and Ostrava, as well as on selected regional lines, e.g. Žďárec u Skutče – Svitavy. The system will start operating at the first crossing in Uhersko after 18 May this year. The cameras at the remaining crossing listed in the table will be activated in the second half of July. The total cost of retrofitting these 14 crossings with supervision equipment, including software, exceeded five million crowns. With respect to the project preparation, zoning proceedings and actual implementation, the second stage of the installation of these intelligent cameras, in which another 16 crossings throughout the Czech Republic will be fitted with completely new equipment, will take place by the end of next year. A driver who enters a railway crossing in cases where this is prohibited by law commits an offence. According to the law, he/she faces a fine of up to 5,000 crowns, a ban on driving motor vehicles for up to 6 months, and 7 points will be added to his/her account in the points system. List of railway crossings intended for the implementation of the camera system order: poř. č. č. přejezdu železniční km traťový úsek lokalita 1 P4897 286,369 železniční stanice Uhersko Uhersko 2 P6847 6,64 Svitavy – Květná Vendolí 3 P6865 21,323 Polička – Borová Kamenec u Poličky 4 P6890 28,109 železniční stanice Borová u Poličky Borová 5 P6896 30,38 Borová – Čachnov Borová 6 P6913 39,521 Čachnov – Skuteč Krouna 7 P8290 328,679 Louky nad Olší – Karviná hl. n. Karviná 8 P6511 280,264 Bohumín – Dětmarovice Dolní Lutyně 9 P6501 245,044 železniční stanice Studénka Studénka 10 P6506 252,244 Studénka – Jistebník Jistebník 11 P6508 256,861 Jistebník – Polanka nad Odrou Ostrava 12 P7868 25,272 Opava východ – Kravaře ve Slezsku Velké Hoštice 13 P8280 307,712 Bystřice nad Olší – Třinec Vendryně 14 P6496 231,244 Polom – Suchdol nad Odrou Mankovice