SPEED cameras on the Worcestershire section of the motorway are among the most effective in the country for catching speeding drivers, new figures reveal.
Speed cameras set up on the section of the M5 between junctions 4a (Bromsgrove) and 6 (Worcester), caught 15,062 drivers in a 12-month period between 2021 and 2022.
The camera site was the busiest in the West Mercia policing region.
The camera is the seventh most active site in the country, ahead of camera sites in the Kent and Sussex regions.
It is also ahead of the highest site for the West Midlands - the M6 between junctions 7 and 8 in Birmingham which caught 12,762 drivers speeding.
The figures had come from research carried out by Confused.com of the country's more than 1,300 operating speeding cameras policing roads in the UK.
The figures were released from a Freedom of Information request with 36 of the 46 police forces in the UK responding.
Data also shows nationally, of the 1.74 million motorists that were caught, only 457,232 drivers were forced to take a £100 fine and three penalty points on their licence.
Instead of a fine, 698,115 drivers opted to take a speed awareness course.
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