Data from Cambridgeshire Police's speed cameras reveals shocking statistics, including drivers reaching more than 70mph on city roads and twice the national speed limit on motorways. Speeding remains a fatal five cause of death and serious injuries, with severe consequences for those caught.
Cambridgeshire Police urged drivers to take care, drive to the condition of the road and remember that the speed limit is not a target A driver was caught doing 154mph at a speeding hotspot on a dual carriageway by a speed camera, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
The motorist was clocked on the A14 at Fenstanton in 2023, where others were captured doing 124mph in 2024 - and 143mph in 2025. Casualty reduction officer PC Adrian Boddington said: "Driving in that way, you are increasing the likelihood of the harm you're going to cause to yourself and others.
" Data from Cambridgeshire Police's speed cameras showed drivers reaching more than 70mph on city centre roads and twice the national speed limit on motorways. A police spokesperson said: "Speeding remains one of the 'fatal five' most common causes of death and serious injuries on our roads.
"By keeping within the speed limit, it gives motorists precious time to look for cyclists, pedestrians or hazards on the road. "Speeding drivers face consequences ranging from completing a driver improvement course to being disqualified from driving, said PC Adrian Boddington The FOI data showed the busiest speeding hotspots in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in the past five years. Nearly 4,000 tickets were issued at the A14 at Fenstanton in 2023, nearly 5,000 in 2024 and more than 2,800 in 2025.
More than 12,500 tickets were issued at the A1 at Alconbury in 2024, where a driver was caught doing 128mph; last year that number halved to more than 6,000 tickets, making it the camera where the most tickets were issued in 2025. In urban areas, more speeding tickets were issued at Fletton Parkway in Peterborough than anywhere else between 2020 and 2022 - nearly 13,000 - with the worst offenders clocked doing 110, 111 and 99mph in the 60mph zone.
A driver was also caught doing up to 81mph on Elizabeth Way in Cambridge in 2023, where the speed limit is 30mph. Last year, 4,351 speeding tickets were issued for that stretch of road. Speaking to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's Dotty McLeod, Boddington said that on average, two out of 10 people will be killed if hit by a car driven at 30mph, whereas at 35mph, eight out of 10 people will die.
"And hitting someone at 37mph is the equivalent of falling out of the fifth story of a building, just to put that into perspective for people," he added. , including 12 motorcyclists, and more than 350 were seriously injured on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's roads. Other hotspots over the past five years include the A1307 at Horseheath and the A605 between Elton and the A1.
Cambridgeshire Police also sent out more notices of intended prosecution to drivers for alleged speed offences every year between 2020 - when it issued nearly 22,000 notices - and 2024, when it issued more than 51,000. The data relates to fixed speed cameras, but Boddington said the police force also deployed mobile enforcement teams.
"Whilst we can't be everywhere, we could be anywhere and it's important that people just comply with the speed limits to keep everyone safe," he said. The police spokesperson said the money generated from fines could go to a variety of places, including driver improvement courses, depending on who owns the infrastructure.
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