Cash in a flash: Mobile cameras nab two drivers at 45km/h above limit

Both drivers were left with a pain in pocket after being snapped by the mobile camera, with each fined almost $2500 for their indiscretion.

But they were just two of about 150 lead-footed drivers caught at a number of mobile speed camera locations across the Bathurst region in the first half of the 2019-20 financial year.

Data from the NSW Office of State Revenue details the number of drivers caught at each of the mobile speed camera locations right across the state.

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The figures reveal just how profitable the cameras are - contributing more than $3.6 million to the state's coffers in just six months - and where speeding drivers are most likely to be caught.

In the Bathurst region, positions either side of the Great Western Highway near the Bathurst Showground have proved the most lucrative spots for the mobile speed cameras in recent times.

Between July 2019 and January 2020, mobile speed cameras set up on the eastbound side of the highway caught 47 speeding drivers, for a total of $8757 in fines, while the site on the westbound side of the highway caught 32 speeding drivers over the same period, a total of $5822 in fines.

Most of the fines were issued to drivers caught travelling at less than 10km/h over the limit.

By contrast, the mobile speed camera site on the Sofala Road at Wattle Flat has proved the least lucrative location this year.

In six months, just a single driver was caught speeding by the camera - also travelling at less than 10km/h over the limit for a fine of $121.

Nine drivers were caught speeding at the mobile speed camera site eastbound on the Great Western Highway at Kirkconnell; 16 on Gilmour Street, Kelso; nine travelling eastbound on the Mitchell Highway at Vittoria and four westbound; six on Littlebourne Street, Kelso; and four on the Mitchell Highway at Robin Hill.

Transport for NSW says mobile speed cameras work like fixed speed cameras, but are moved in vehicles from location to location to provide a general deterrence against speeding.