Users of North East Scotland’s two main trunk roads face more than £1 million in speeding fines every year.
A Courier freedom of information investigation into the A9 and the A90 has revealed that more than 130,000 drivers have been caught by static or mobile cameras since 2007 around 55 people every day.
In the first six months of this year the number of motorists flashed has rocketed to 70 per day as the death toll on both routes stacks up.
If every driver had paid a £60 fine the public purse would have been boosted by £7.8m. The figures are for the full length of both routes and do not take into include proceeds from drivers who were stopped by road
policing officers on patrol, meaning the true total is likely to be much higher.
Meanwhile, the imminent introduction of average speed cameras on the A9 between Dunblane and Inverness is also likely to raise the income derived still higher.
Roads campaigner Fiona Hutton, whose parents were killed in a crash on the A9, said: “People get caught speeding and they pay the fine and think about the money and then the next day they go back to driving erratically.
“It’s not just the people speeding that are paying the cost; my mother and father were innocent roads users.”
Despite already being fully dualled, the A90 has claimed almost as many lives as the A9 since the year 2000, with 138 people killed on the route, including 45 in Tayside and 13 in the Mearns.
In contrast there were 149 fatalities on the A9, 103 of which came in Tayside and six in Forth Valley.
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