New Exmouth speed camera catches over 1,600 vehicles speeding

A new Exmouth speed camera has already caught over 1,600 drivers speeding.

Installed last month on the A376 near the Courtland's Cross petrol station, it detected 1,671 speeding offences in just over two weeks from 14 June, police said on Thursday (29 June).

The highest speed recorded was 61mph, more than double the road's 30mph limit.

Adrian Leisk, Devon and Cornwall Police's Head of Road Safety and chair of the Vision Zero South West enforcement committee, said: "It is disappointing drivers continue to put their own and other people's lives at risk by failing to comply with speed limits.

"Please take this as another warning that these cameras are fully operational and are already catching far, far too many speeding motorists.

"The whole purpose of publicising this information is to slow people down. The success of the schemes will be measured by reduced activations as people lower their speeds.

"As I've said many times before, there is a very easy way to avoid a speeding conviction, just stick to the speed limits."

The new camera operates 24 hours a day and can catch speeding drivers in both directions. The old camera at the pedestrian crossing nearby is to be removed.