A MULTI-ORGANISATIONAL team that fights to maintain safety on Gloucestershire’s roads have released their figures for mobile speed vans in March – as well as the priority sites for this month.

Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership releases these figures on a monthly basis detailing the numbers of speeders caught out by their vans.

They also outline their priority sites for the current month which are chosen based on previously collected information.

Figures for priority sites for mobile speed vans for March are as follows: In Siddington 20 drivers were caught speeding in more than five visits. Figures from previous visits do not show a marked rise or fall.

On the A436 near Bourton on the Water, 16 speeders were caught in five visits. These are, according to Gloucestershire Police, “very low figures” and “in keeping with last year”.

On the A429 in Fossebridge 31 were caught in five visits. Figures from previous visits do not show a marked rise or fall.

On the A429 near Bourton on the Water, 36 were caught in five visits. Again the figures do not show a marked rise or fall.

Finally on the A40 in Hampnett, 56 speeding motorists were caught in five visits. This has been a regularly visited site since 2014 but March showed a reduction in the number of cars caught speeding set against the historical average.

The police have 14 days in which to serve the registered keeper of the vehicle with a ‘notice of intended prosecution’, which will set out the details of the alleged offence. For most offences captured by a speed camera, a fixed penalty of £60 is imposed. For more serious speeding offences the case is likely to be referred to court. Here the maximum fine is £1,000 on normal roads and up to £2,500 for motorway offences. Fines imposed by the court will always take into account the circumstances, the speed and the driver’s record.

The priority sites for April include the A4013 at Princess Elizabeth Way, in Cheltenham; the A4019 in Uckington; Estcourt Road in Gloucester; Secunda Way in Gloucester and Bath Road.

The sites chosen reflect on-going speeding issues at these sites as evidenced throughout the last year.

Some have shown an improvement since being previously named as priority sites and police hope this trend will continue.