Thousands caught by mobile speed cameras
Mobile speed cameras have caught motorists 7,654 times in and close to the Black Country so far this year.
It is almost 2,500 more times than in the whole of 2012 according to figures released by West Midlands Police.
Mobile speed cameras have been deployed more over the past 18 months since funding cuts saw every fixed roadside speed camera turned off.
The region's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson wants to get them turned back on and the old and costly wet film cameras upgraded to digital.
A4040 Sandwell Road (southbound) 1,771
A456 Manor Way (Halesowen Bypass) 1,285
Henwood Road, Wolverhampton, 534
A4040 Sandwell Road (northbound) 440
A462 Darlaston Road, 347
A449 Kidderminster Road, 281
A459 Halesowen Road 252
B4043 Manor Lane, Halesowen 237
A4123 Birmingham New Road (NB) 213
B4135 Cranford Street, Smethwick, 208
The Droveway, Pendeford 203
A4098 Great Bridge Road, Bilston, 200
Oakham Road, Dudley 192
B4484 Willenhall Road, 181
Saltwells Road, Netherton 169
A4031 Trinity Way, West Bromwich, 143
Spies Lane, Halesowen 121
Greets Green Road, West Bromwich, 106
Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, 103
Walsall Wood Road, 94
Woden Road South, Wednesbury, 89
Stow Heath Lane, Wolverhampton, 79
Milking Bank, Dudley, 68
Kitchen Lane, Wednesfield, 35
Stubbers Green Road, Aldridge 35
A457 Tipton Road, 27
Brook Street/Bourne Street, Dudley 25
A4123 Birmingham New Road (southbound)15
One of the biggest hot spots for mobile speed camera stings was on the A4040 Sandwell Road in Handsworth, close to West Bromwich Albion's stadium. The southbound stretch alone saw 1,771 fines issued this year with 440 on the northbound stretch.
Manor Way, the Halesowen bypass, accounted for 1,285 fines, almost 10 times as much as in 2013.
The road is where Tipton motorcyclist Nick Foster died in a crash last June.
Police have since been catching people going at 82mph in the 40mph zone.
The A4123 Birmingham New Road saw drivers fined 213 times heading northbound towards Sandwell and Wolverhampton but just 15 southbound heading towards Birmingham.
Henwood Road in Wolverhampton also saw 391 drivers fined heading northbound and 143 southbound.
In April 2013 the last 73 of active cameras were switched off by the West Midlands Safety Partnership. The rest had previously been dummy housings acting as a deterrent.
The decision was made after West Midlands Police said it could no longer afford the £1m a year running costs due to budget cuts. Instead, the number of the police's mobile van cameras on the region's roads doubled to four.
Hugh Bladon, of the Alliance of British Drivers, said more people would be caught unaware.
He said: "With fixed cameras you know where they are and you take precautions.
"The mobile cameras pop up anywhere and catch people, many of whom have not done anything dangerous.
"Speed limits in some areas are so low you have to be a saint not to exceed it slightly."
Mr Jamieson, who was elected following the death of predecessor Bob Jones, said: "There is no question that speed cameras have saved thousands of lives over the last 10 to 15 years and prevented tens of thousands more from being maimed and seriously injured. The cameras produced a change in the culture of motorists in this country in much the same way that the breath test did to drink and drive."
