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An alleged act of vandalism has put the brakes on one of Saskatoon’s photo radar locations.

Early in the morning of March 17, SGI received reports of damage to the photo radar box on Circle Drive South near the Taylor Street overpass.

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“We have operators who attend those cameras every day … According to what they think happened, just by what the site looked like, they figured that someone had driven up to the camera and pushed it over with a vehicle. So, I would consider that vandalism,” said Shannon Ell, SGI’s director of traffic safety promotion.

“I don’t believe that a car went out of control and hit it; it was more of a deliberate act to push it over.”

SGI has dealt with incidents of vandalism against photo radar boxes before, especially when the program to catch speeders was first introduced. Although most reports are less serious, usually involving someone spray painting the glass in front of the camera, SGI has so far lost two boxes to incidents involving vehicles, Ell said.