Flintshire speed cameras issued more than 20,000 fines in 2025
Eight of the ten busiest speed cameras in North Wales are sited in Flintshire, with a single camera on the A5104 at Pontybodkin issuing more than 4,300 fixed penalty notices to drivers in 2025.
North Wales Police issued 34,339 speed-related fixed penalty notices across its entire force area in calendar year 2025, according to a Freedom of Information response published this week, and the eight Flintshire cameras in the top ten accounted for 20,038 of them.
That makes the Flintshire eight responsible for nearly 58 per cent of every speed FPN issued across the whole of North Wales.
The most prolific single camera, on the A5104 at Pontybodkin, issued 4,329 fixed penalty notices on its own, an average of nearly twelve drivers every day across the year.
The other Flintshire locations in the top ten are the A548 at Oakenholt with 3,750 FPNs, the B5129 at Pentre with 2,758, the A494 at East Garden City with 2,508, the A5119 Northop Road with 2,264, the A550 Gladstone Way with 1,783, the Greenfield camera on the A548 with 1,369, and the A549 at Mynydd Isa with 1,277.
The only two non-Flintshire cameras in the top ten are both on the A483 at Junctions 5 and 6 in Wrexham, which between them issued 2,835 FPNs in 2025.
Each fixed penalty notice carries a face value of £100, meaning the eight Flintshire cameras alone generated speeding notices with a combined face value of just over £2 million across the year.
A separate Freedom of Information response from North Wales Police shows that fixed cameras now account for 80 per cent of all speed detections across the force area, up from 46 per cent in the 2021 to 2022 financial year, while mobile camera detections have halved over the same period from 32,846 to 16,424.
Cameras across North Wales detected 84,511 speed offences in the 2025 to 2026 financial year, down from a peak of 89,496 the previous year but still 36 per cent above the 62,144 recorded in 2023 to 2024.
The 2024 to 2025 financial year was the first full year after Wales lowered the default speed limit on restricted roads from 30mph to 20mph in September 2023.
A further 51,337 drivers across North Wales were offered a speed awareness course rather than a fixed penalty notice during calendar 2025, in addition to those who were fined.
Revenue from fixed penalty notices issued by North Wales Police goes to HM Treasury rather than being retained by the force.
The figures were released by North Wales Police’s Freedom of Information Unit.
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