100mph drivers caught on Wolverhampton's A449 Stafford Road
New figures have revealed the top speeds clocked up by drivers who were caught by enforcement cameras in Wolverhampton - with three motorists snared at 100mph.
The figures were revealed in a Freedom of Information request and show the highest speeds clocked by speed cameras in the city since 2011.
In that year two drivers were caught doing 100mph on Stafford Road, where the limit is 40mph, while another driver was snared doing the same speed on Wednesfield Road.
All 305 of the region's speed and traffic light cameras were turned off in March 2013.
But the figures have prompted West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner to reiterate his calls for a return to speed camera enforcement in a bid to reduce deaths on the region's roads.
Three speeding motorists were caught travelling three times over the limit in Oxford Street, Bilston. In 2012 a driver was snapped doing 90mph while travelling towards Wednesbury at the junction with Hare Street.
At the same spot there were two separate incidents of drivers travelling at 80mph in 2012. The limit on that section of the road is 30mph.
In 2012 a motorist was clocked travelling at 92mph on the Tettenhall Road near Upper Vauxhall - another stretch where the legal limit is 30mph.
Since March 2013 all speed enforcement operations have been carried out by four mobile camera units, fixed cameras on motorways and traffic officers on patrol.
The number of drivers caught travelling at high speed has dropped since then.
West Midlands PCC David Jamieson has made the re-installation of speed cameras a key priority since he took office last year.
He said: "Incidents on our roads are the biggest killers of our young people. Those deaths have a devastating impact on the families involved and cost the economy billions of pounds each year.
"I support the return of safety cameras as they are proven to reduce the number of casualties on our roads.
"If councils are willing install cameras I will make sure that the police cover the processing and enforcement, as we are in Birmingham and Solihull."
He added that he wants to increase safety rather than penalise motorists.
"That is why as a minister I changed government policy to ensure that cameras were painted yellow so that motorists could see them, increasing safety as a result," he said.
Last year the top speed clocked by a speed camera was 69mph, which was recorded on the Birmingham New Road near Lanesfield.
A driver was caught doing 65mph at the same spot this year.
