Overview
The Town of Davie and the Town of Davie Police Department are working to improve community safety by installing state-of-the-art digital speed safety cameras to decrease traffic violations and collisions and to help increase safety around our schools.
Speed safety cameras are proven to be effective in reducing crashes as well as pedestrian-related injuries. Most importantly, communities that use speed safety cameras consistently report safer roads around their schools.
Enforcement
School zones will be marked with additional posted speed limit signs, regulatory time placards, and photo-enforced signs. With the additional signage, the goal is to slow vehicles down causing fewer crashes and injuries. Cameras will be used to identify vehicles traveling over the posted speed limit. Anyone in the designated school zone driving 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit will receive a violation in the mail.
The School Zone Speed Cameras will begin capturing speeding infractions on November 20, 2024, and drivers will be provided with more than a 55-day grace period during which warnings will be issued. This warning period will encourage drivers to slow down and change their driving habits. During this warning period, violators will receive a warning in the mail that carries no fine. The citations will begin on January 13, 2025.
Speed cameras will be active and enforced on school days from 30 minutes before school starts until 30 minutes after school has ended. This violation is a civil violation and is not considered a traffic violation. The violation is $100.
How do the school zone speed safety cameras work?
The photo speed monitoring systems are set up with sophisticated radar equipment that monitors vehicle speeds as traffic approaches and passes the equipment.
When a vehicle exceeds the threshold limit during school hours, a photograph is taken of the vehicle. A second photograph is taken as the vehicle passes the detection zone to record the vehicle’s license plate. The date, time, speed, and location of the infraction are recorded on the digital image.
The Davie Police Department reviews each incident before issuing a citation. The citation will contain vehicle images and a close-up of the license plate.
A Notice of Violation for a speed violation will be issued if your vehicle is found to be traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the school zone speed limit during one of the following times:
a) Within 30 minutes before through 30 minutes after the start of a regularly scheduled breakfast program.
b) Within 30 minutes before through 30 minutes after the start of a regularly scheduled school session.
c) During the entirety of a regularly scheduled school session.
d) Within 30 minutes before through 30 minutes after a regularly scheduled school session ends.