Intersection safety cameras operating in Okanagan

Cameras are now clicking at busy, high-risk intersections in the Okanagan and other areas of B.C., equipped to ticket speeding vehicles.

Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said automated speed enforcement equipment is now in place at all 35 planned Intersection Safety Camera (ISC) program sites and operating at 34 of them, on a 24/7 basis. Prominent warning signs are in place to warn and deter speeding drivers.

In Vernon, there is a red light camera at Highway 97 and 43rd Avenue, but no speed camera.

In Kelowna, red light and speed cameras are at Harvey Avenue and Cooper Road and at Highway 97 North and Banks Road.

Intersections in Kelowna with red light cameras are Dilworth Drive at Springfield Road, Harvey Avenue at Gordon Drive and Harvey Avenue at Spall Road.

ISC equipment captures images and speeds of the fastest vehicles passing through monitored intersections on red, yellow and green lights. Before mailing tickets, which carry fines but no penalty points, ISC officers review the digital images and data to confirm the applicable Motor Vehicle Act charge or charges. Notably, the registered owner of a vehicle that speeds through a red light at a speed-activated ISC intersection would face fines for both infractions.

A map showing all of B.C.’s ISC sites, and municipal and regional lists of them, are online here.

Since B.C. activated its first five automated speed enforcement cameras at the end of July 2019, the program has issued more than 20,000 speeding tickets. The fastest ticketed vehicle was clocked 174 km/h at a location where the posted speed limit is 80 km/h.

Quarterly data for ISC red-light and speed violation tickets are here.