The changes - blasted as a disgrace and absurd by critics - came into effect in November. The number of hours the cameras operate also tripled from 7000 hours per month to 21,000 hours and the fleet of cars have been stripped back to look like regular cars parked on the side of the road. Warnings signs were previously required to be placed 250m ahead of the mobile speed camera, as well as 50m after. As a result, the mobile speed cameras now look like everyday cars, with no indication a police officer is inside with a speed camera, and new data has revealed the brutal effect this has had on our wallets.
Four young children who were killed in a horror drunk driving accident have been remembered in a heartbreaking memorial service one year after their deaths.
Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 9, and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were all killed after a car ploughed into them in Oatlands in Sydney s north-west on February 1.
Samuel William Davidson, 30, had been driving the ute that hit the children - who were on their way to get ice-cream - and has pleaded guilty to nine charges including four counts of manslaughter.
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the young lives lost at the Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral in Harris Park on Friday for the one-year anniversary mass.
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The family of three Oatlands car crash victims have revealed how their daughter inspired them to celebrate Christmas in their fallen children s honour.
Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 9, and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were killed in the horrific car crash that shocked Australia on February 1.
Samuel William Davidson was high on a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and MDMA when he lost control of his car at 140km/h and swerved off the road in Sydney s north-west and ploughed into the group of children.
The loss devastated the Abdallah family and ten months later, parents Danny and Leila were not in a celebratory mood for the upcoming Christmas break.