Top 10 speed cameras most likely to catch drivers revealed - and exactly where they are
Top 10 speed cameras most likely to catch drivers revealed - and exactly where they are
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A record number of motorists, almost 10,000 every DAY, are being snapped by speed cameras – as a survey reveals the places where drivers are most likely to get caught. New figures show police speed cameras snared 3,419,000 drivers in 2023 – the last whole year for which statistics are available – a record high and a 14percent rise on the figure for 2022. The Home Office stats show 883,000 accepted a £100 fixed penalty fine and three points on their licence, while 1.5million drivers opted to pay around £100 to avoid three points and took a driver education course.
Just these drivers alone would have been hit in the pocket to the tune of almost £250million for their speeding misdemeanours. Another 286,000 drivers’ offences were considered so bad – either because their speed was too high, or they already had a string of speeding convictions to their name – that they were sent to court.
The rest of the offences were dealt with in some other way or were cancelled because police couldn’t track down the driver or the vehicle was on an emergency call. A separate survey uncovered the spots on our road network where drivers were caught the most times over the last three years by police-controlled speed cameras.
The one that caught the most drivers in that time was a speed camera positioned on the M6 in Birmingham on the northbound section between J7 and J8. It managed to snare 36,438 drivers between 2021 and 2023 meaning it caught almost 250 speeding motorists every week.
Also, on the list of sites that caught the most drivers was a stretch of the M25 near Clacket Lane services, the northbound approach to the Dartford Tunnel and Garston Way, in Merseyside. Other sites that tripped up speeding drivers were the M4 eastbound, near Bristol, that caught 21,129, the M1 northbound near Sheffield, which caught 19,918 motorists and the A1081 road heading away from Luton Airport, which snared 19,908 vehicles.
