On the Internet, you can find an interesting fact about the Scandinavian country: the money raised thanks to fines for speeding speed forms the prize fund of the lottery for drivers who observe the speed limit. We checked the reliability of such messages.
Facttrum website in a selection of “10 interesting facts about Sweden” reports: “In Stockholm, road chambers record drivers observing the speed limit, and they automatically become participants in the lottery, the prize fund of which is formed from fines paid by drivers who exceeded speed.” Popular publics in VKontakte with an audience from several hundred thousand to several million subscribers also talked about an unusual initiative. Among them - "5 interesting facts", "Useful education", "Do you know?", Performance And many others. Similar posts can be found in other social networks, for example Facebook And Twitter.
The idea of conducting such a lottery Offered American Kevin Richardson. With this concept, he won the contest of “funny” theories designed to change the behavior of drivers. The competition in early 2010 was organized by Volkswagen.
In the fall of the same year, the project was tried to implement in Stockholm together with the Swedish National Association of Road Safety (NTF). On one of the streets of the Swedish capital, a camera was installed that fixed the speed of the cars. For the three days that the experiment continued, 25,000 cars participated in it. Before the lottery, the average speed at the site of installation of the camera was 32 km/h, after - it fell to 25 km/h.
By messages local media, the winner of the lottery was the local resident of Bengt Holmstrom, who won 20,000 kroons (almost $ 3,000 in course 2010). Four more people won Prizes are doubled. In 2011, the lottery Spent In another five Swedish cities.
Our Australian Associated Press Turned For a commentary on Ian Sandberg, NTF head in 2010. He emphasized that the experiment, financed Volkswagen, has not overgrown with national practice, without receiving support from the state. Sandberg also explained that, contrary to the original idea, collected thanks to the fines for exceeding the speed of the product, did not become the basis of the prize lottery fund. Since the beginning of the 2010s, according to the ex-head of NTF and the author of the idea of Richardson, it has not been carried out. The representative of the Swedish transport agency in a conversation with Australian Facturers and even declaredthat I have never heard of the lottery and “strongly doubts” in its existence.
Thus, a number of Internet resources, public and individual users of social networks are misleading their readers and subscribers. The initiative they described was implemented in Sweden more than ten years ago in the form of a short -term experiment and using just one camera. The project was not scaled either for the entire Stockholm or even more so for the whole Sweden. They could not fully realize the idea, so telling about it as the authors of the texts about the lottery among drivers do is unfounded.
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