West Midlands drivers fork out £250,000 in speeding fines in four months
Speeding drivers in the West Midlands have forked out more than £250,000 in fines in just four months – prompting fresh calls to keep the cash in the region.
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West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster said he will continue campaigning for money raised from fixed penalty fines to be reinvested in the force instead of going to central government coffers.
Mr Foster said a total of £287,950 has been sent to the Treasury so far in 2025 for speeding and non-speeding offences.
This follows more than £2,000,000 being collected and passed on during the whole of the 2024 calendar year.
He said the money would be better used in improving road safety in the West Midlands and help achieve targets of reducing death and serious injuries by 2040.
Mr Foster said: “In the 2024 calendar year, £2,053,430 has, so far, been passed on to the Treasury by West Midlands Police, after collecting fixed penalty fines issued for motoring offences in the region.
“This included fixed penalty fines issued for speeding and non-speeding offences. This year, a similar story is already emerging.
“West Midlands Police has already had to send £287,950 to the Treasury in fixed penalty notices issued in our region: £252,600 related to fines collected from speeding drivers, and £35,350 was collected for non-speed-related motoring offences.
“This money should not be going to central government. I will continue with my campaign for the retention of this revenue in the West Midlands. I will continue to reiterate this point to the Government.
It is essential that revenue generated from road-related penalty fines is retained within the region where the crime was committed.
“It can then be invested in preventing and tackling crime and anti-social behaviour and reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads, due to people driving at unlawful, excessive, careless, dangerous and reckless speeds.
“This money could pay for the expansion of the average speed camera network and additional enforcement, buying more mobile police speed camera vans or even new speed enforcement devices.
In the West Midlands, we have committed to halving the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads by 2030 and we aim to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries by 2040.
“We need the government to step up and back our commitment. The government can do that by allowing us to retain fines for all road-related offences locally, which would better enable us to reduce the number of people tragically and avoidably killed and seriously injured on our roads and keep the roads of the West Midlands safe for all of us.”
