Revealed: Where speed cameras target thousands of drivers in London as they drive to work in the early morning

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Speed cameras target thousands of drivers in London. Credit: PA

Official figures show speed cameras are targeting thousands of drivers in London as they drive to work in the early morning.

Almost 10,000 were caught speeding by more than 250 fixed roadside cameras around the capital.

According to Met Police figures released under freedom of information laws, drivers were often caught speeding around London between 5am and 7am last year,

Map by Esri UK.

Between 6am and 7am was the worst time to be caught breaking the speed limit with 5,188 offences recorded.

Motorist in Ealing were most likely to be caught, with 16,337 offcers, closely followed Hammersmith and Fulham on 9,250 and Tower Hamlets on 7,224.

Busiest speed cameras in London:

  • Busiest static speed camera was at the A4 West Cromwell Road junction with North End Road, westbound, in Hammersmith and Fulham, which caught 8,776 speeders.

  • The A406 Hanger Lane, southbound, near Greystoke Gardens, in Ealing, 8,163,

  • the A406 Hanger Lane, northbound, near Greystoke Gardens, 6,562

  • and the Limehouse Link Tunnel, eastbound, in Tower Hamlets, 5,385.

  • A camera in Croydon, in Old Farleigh Road (northbound) near Birdwood Close, only caught one offender last year.

According to Esri UK which mapped the cases, there were 90,543 notices of intended prosecution issued for speeding offences caught by 255 static cameras last year,

Worst London boroughs

(London borough, number of fixed speed cameras, number of offences in 2015)

1 Ealing 15 16,337

2 Hammersmith and Fulham 5 9,250

3 Tower Hamlets 5 7,224

4 Kensington and Chelsea 5 6,526

5 Lambeth 13 6,100

6 Hounslow 16 4,947

7 Wandsworth 11 3,888

8 Lewisham 10 3,181

9 Brent 10 3,144

10 Croydon 15 2,729

11 Islington 9 2,505

12 Haringey 14 2,011

13 Hackney 6 1,939

14 Camden 7 1,886

15 Enfield 12 1,884

16 Newham 5 1,823

17 Harrow 8 1,657

18 Sutton 13 1,495

19 Redbridge 7 1,290

20 Richmond upon Thames 4 1,279

21 City of Westminster 7 1,265

22 Hillingdon 6 1,239

23 Greenwich 5 1,167

24 Havering 9 1,053

25 Southwark 4 974

26 Merton 5 943

27 Kingston upon Thames 9 921

28 Bromley 5 768

29 Barking and Dagenham 4 410

30 Barnet 8 345

31 Waltham Forest 1 195

32 Bexley 2 168