A number of locations in the Ashby area have been identified as ‘core and community concern sites’ where mobile speed patrols could be set up.
There are a variety of different cameras which patrol the roads, some of which track your speed, others watch out for people trying to run red lights.
But in areas where there has been a history of speeding, an increased number of casualties or where communities have raised concerns, they are patrolled by mobile speed cameras.
The majority of these are run by the local police force and are used as part of safety camera partnership teams and speed safety campaigns.
They come in a number of forms, working from marked or unmarked vehicles and are sometimes operated by police officers using radar and laser guns.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service has compiled a list of the core and community concern sites where mobile speed patrols could be set up.
According to a spokesperson for the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Road Safety Partnership (LLRSP), core sites are selected on a set criteria based upon “up to date speed readings and casualty figures in consultation with the relevant local authority”.
Below is the list of the Core Sites in the Ashby area:
• B5006 Tamworth Road, Ashby
• B5003 Ashby Road, Norris Hill
Residents across Leicestershire have “felt their lives blighted by the anti-social effects of excessively speeding traffic through their communities”, according to the LLRSP spokesperson.
In response to this, “detailed covert traffic speed surveys are undertaken and if a particular location meets our criteria it will become a community concern site and will benefit from regular speed camera van visits over the course of approximately 18 months.”
These come under Community Concern Sites – and here are the ones listed for the Ashby area.
• Burton Road, Ashby
• Ashby Road, Donisthorpe
• Measham Road, Moria / Donisthorpe
• B4116 Measham Road / Ashby Road, Snarestone
The LLRSP says that speed cameras are there to keep everyone safe and the rules are simple. If you don’t want to get caught speeding, don’t exceed the limit of the road. But by the letter of the law, going 31 in a 30mph zone is still speeding, so there are inevitably times where people either accidentally, or intentionally, press the accelerator that little bit too hard.
Leicestershire was a particularly bad area for speeding offence prosecutions last year, with the figure jumping from 2,524 in 2021, to 4,855 in 2022.
This 92 per cent rise was the third highest increase nationally, with Nottinghamshire seeing the biggest increase of 131 per cent.