Published: 05th March 2008 | Author: Joanne Rowe
SPEED cameras in Bolton raked in £109,500 in fines last year.
Figures obtained by The Bolton News show 1,825 motorists were caught by fixed or mobile speed traps in the borough in 2007.
The statistics also reveal there has been a dramatic increase in the number of motorists hit with fines since the turn of the century.
In 2000, 695 tickets were issued to motorists caught by fixed and mobile speed cameras, generating £41,700.
By 2005, that figure had peaked at a high for thedecade of 2,004 fines being issued - a total cost to the motorist of £120,240.
A motor campaign group last night called for all cash collected from speeding fines to be used to cut road deaths by funding road safety schemes.