Britain's most lucrative speed camera has been named and shamed, and the local community is furious. It has emerged that a new speed camera erected on a road where there has been just one serious accident in over ten years, has netted over 1.3m pound in revenue from speeding motorists per year.
The notorious speed camera which has unofficially been labelled the most lucrative in Britain, on average catches over 1,800 motorists each month. The cost of a speeding ticket stands at a whopping 60, so this one camera has netted over 1,327,140 each year of its life.
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.
In May this year a temporary Camera at road works on the A1139 in Peterborough was issuing an average of 3000 tickets per month, netting over 3.2m per year.
The notorious speed camera which has unofficially been labelled the most lucrative in Britain, on average catches over 1,800 motorists each month. The cost of a speeding ticket stands at a whopping 60, so this one camera has netted over 1,327,140 each year of its life.
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.
In May this year a temporary Camera at road works on the A1139 in Peterborough was issuing an average of 3000 tickets per month, netting over 3.2m per year.
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