A new red-light speed camera starts watching the corner of the Pacific Highway and Wyee Road at Doyalson from 18 September 2026. For the first month it only sends letters. After that, running the red there costs you $562 and three demerit points — and if you are speeding through at the same time, that is a second fine on top.
Why this intersection got a camera
The crash record did it. In the five years from 2021 to 2025, 18 crashes happened at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Wyee Road in Doyalson. Nineteen people were injured, five of them seriously.
Transport for NSW says camera sites are selected based on crash statistics at intersections. In the media release announcing the Doyalson camera, Executive Director of Road Safety Regulation Duncan Lucas said about 40 to 50 per cent of red-light speed camera offences are drivers running the red, not speeding.
We know that running red lights can lead to serious T-bone crashes or vehicles hitting pedestrians.
What it costs once the warnings stop
The camera runs in warning mode for one month from 18 September. Anyone caught speeding or running the red in that window gets a warning letter instead of a penalty, which puts the first real fines around mid-October.
After that, “proceed through red traffic light (camera detected)” is a $562 penalty notice and three demerit points under Rule 59(1) of the Road Rules 2014. Double demerits do not apply to that offence.
Speeding is priced separately. Speeding starts at $149 and one demerit point for 10km/h and under on a full licence, and speeding offences do attract double demerits over long weekends and holiday periods. If the camera catches you doing both at once, Transport for NSW issues two penalty notices and records demerit points for both.
It is the second camera on this stretch in a fortnight
Doyalson is not alone. A red-light speed camera at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Goorama Avenue in Blue Haven switched on a week earlier, from 11 September 2026. That intersection recorded 13 crashes between 2020 and 2024, resulting in 18 casualties including three serious injuries.
Whether these cameras actually change anything
NSW’s most recent speed camera review found fatal and serious injury crashes fell by 52 per cent at red-light speed camera locations, and pedestrian casualties fell by almost 70 per cent. Transport for NSW says road crashes claimed the lives of 348 people on NSW roads last year, with speed the biggest killer.
Fines from red-light speed cameras go directly into the Community Road Safety Fund to deliver targeted road safety initiatives in NSW. So the money is quarantined for road safety work — it is just not coming back to you.
Source: Transport for NSW media release, “Dangerous driving given the red light in Doyalson”, 11 September 2026, and the NSW Government offences and penalties database, last updated 4 September 2026.
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