Which cameras caught the most speeders?

CAMPAIGNERS’ MESSAGE TO DRIVERS: YOU WILL GET CAUGHT

NEW figures have revealed which North East speed cameras caught the most drivers in 2017.

The data has been released by the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, a partnership between local councils and Northumbria Police.

Drivers were snapped going above the speed limit 66,941 times across 133 cameras on Tyneside, Gateshead Wearside and Northumberland. That’s up from 57,449 in 2016 but considerably below the massive 97,292 recorded in 2013, the largest since the data started to be collected in this way.

For the second year in a row the most prolific speed camera in the entire region was a fixed point camera on the Great North Road between the Blue House roundabout and Gosforth town centre.

Motorists are asked to reduce their speed from 50mph to 30mph on the downhill approach but 3,798 drivers failed to do so – just like the 4,204 who made the same mistake in 2016.

The second most prolific was the average speed camera zone heading south on the A19 at Silverlink.

South Tyneside council put the temporary measures in place to reduce the speed of traffic down to 30mph to allow engineers to carry out work to create a new tripledecker roundabout.

The third most lucrative camera was a mobile camera unit site on the A167 Stamfordham Road near Fenham which caught 3,244 motorists.

A spokesperson for Brake, the road safety charity, said: “Speeding is selfish and dangerous and puts lives at risk on our roads every day.

“For the law to act as a true deterrent, drivers should have an expectation that if they speed, they will get caught.

“Enforcement is therefore key, and speed cameras are the most cost effective solution, freeing up roads police to focus on other duties that cannot be conducted by technology, such as breath-testing.”

Find out below which cameras caught the most drivers in your area and how many times they were activated in 2017.