Number of drivers busted speeding on the A9 quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 hitting 13,322 as ‘inexcusable’ top recorded speed was 140 mph

The number of drivers busted by average speed cameras on the A9 quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 hitting a high of 13,322 as the trend for increased speeding seems to be continuing, the BBC is reporting.

The average speed cameras were installed back in 2014 for £3 million. In 2021, 3177 motorists were caught over the speed limit. In 2022, 3123 fell foul of the cameras – that works out to around just over 260 offences a month.

Then in 2023 the skyrocketed to 13,322 for the year – the equivalent of more than 1100 a month – and continued high this year with 4885 offences in total, something more than 814 a month which is still three times more than 2021-22.

This year so far 4885 drivers have been caught speeding on the road including one who was going at 140mph – the highest speed recorded by cameras on the road in the last four years.

The BBC says it obtained figures through a Freedom of Information request on the number of speeding offences and the highest recorded speeds on the road for the last four years showing speeds increasing.

Laùra Hansler, a safety campaigner with the A9 Dual Action group, told the corporation that the record speed is "absolutely inexcusable", saying: "I think these people really need to be having their licenses removed because they are a danger on the road.

"I think some people will drive the way they want to drive and they’ll get from A to B as fast as they like - they’re not thinking about their own safety and they’re certainly not thinking about the safety of other drivers on the road.

"I think safety cameras now are so widely used that people get so complacent at seeing them and think they’re infallible. We have to actually have a much harder line on these people."