Many of us find ourselves rushing around quite a bit in the lead up to Christmas and it can be easy to exceed the speed limit when your mind is elsewhere.
If you’re ever tempted to put your foot down and break the speed limit over the festive period, think again.
As pedantic as it may sound, drivers can get a ticket for travelling just 1mph over the speed limit.
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Ultimately, speeding is not only dangerous but also against the law, which can lead to financial penalties or worse.
Alongside drink and drug driving, not wearing a seatbelt, using a mobile phone and careless driving, speeding is one of the ‘fatal five’ contributory factors responsible for the majority of serious road traffic collisions and deaths
Speed cameras play an important role in keeping our roads safe, acting as a deterrent against speeding drivers.
The minimum penalty for speeding is a £100 fine and three penalty points added to your licence, but depending on the seriousness of the offence the punishment could be more severe.
Here in Peterborough, fixed speed cameras work to prevent speeding on major roads such as the A47 and A1, as well as some inner-city routes.
Cambridgeshire Police shares the locations of its fixed speed cameras across the county, so there really isn’t any excuse to be caught by one.
Here are the 10 fixed speed cameras in and around Peterborough where you could get caught in November 2026.

1. See the location of every fixed speed camera in and around Peterborough where you could get caught in November 2026
Here are the 10 fixed speed cameras in and around Peterborough where you could get caught in November 2026. Photo: Heritage Images


