Britain’s Most Lucrative Speed Camera

The ‘most lucrative’ speed camera in Britain has been named and shamed. Not surprisingly, the local community is outraged by the findings of this camera. It has been discovered that the speed camera, erected on a road where few incidents take place, has netted the local council 1.3m pound per year.

The controversial camera, which has been described as one of the most lucrative in Britain, has captured on average 1,843 motorists per month. And with the average fine for speeding 60, that equates to 1,327,140 each year.

The notorious speed camera was erected in 1999 in Poole, Dorset with the aim of catching motorists jumping the red lights were it is situated on a 30mph section of a dual carriageway. The camera became one of the first to be converted to catch unaware motorists speeding through green lights as well as red.

The camera was converted even though official stats showed there had been only one serious injury and no fatalities in at least 11 years. Motoring groups feared the camera was converted to in a move to ‘milk the motorist’ as the speed limit is also said to be to low for a dual carriageway.

The resulting low speed, the cameras position and the fact it has been converted to ‘catch all’ has led to such high volumes of issued tickets. The stretch of road the camera is on is a wide dual carriageway, with a harbour on one side and an industrial estate on the other with no residential home nearby. The income this camera is generating is well above normal, signifying something is seriously wrong.

This is not the only case of cameras earning vast numbers, In May this year a temporary speed Camera , situated on road works in Peterborough, issued an average of 3000 tickets per month, netting over 3.2m per year for the local council.

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