The Essex Chronicle can reveal the top 30 speed camera locations around Essex where you are most likely to get caught.

Topping the list is the A282 Trunk Road, near the Dartford Crossing, with more than 12,500 motorists caught in 2014 - almost 35 every day.

One speed trap on the A12 in Margaretting comes in at number seven on the list, while Westway’s red light camera, and the 30mph speed traps in Waterhouse Lane and Broomfield Road, all in Chelmsford, just miss out on the top ten.

The information was discovered by a Freedom of Information request submitted to Essex Police by the Chronicle.

Our statistics show the location of the speed camera and the number of drivers caught.

  1. A282 Trunk Road, Dartford-Thurrock Crossing - 12,653
  2. A127 Southend Arterial Road, Rayleigh - 3,344
  3. A127 Southend Arterial Road, Laindon - 2,691
  4. A127 Southend Arterial Road, Laindon - 2,495
  5. A127 Southend Arterial Road, Leigh-on-Sea (junction with Progress Road) - 1,920
  6. A414 London Road, Harlow - 1,682
  7. A12 Margaretting - 1,587
  8. B1025 Mersea Road, Colchester (junction with Dudley Close) - 1,430
  9. A13 London Road, Benfleet - 1,391
  10. A414 London Road, Harlow - 1,231
  11. M25 J27 to J26 (Anti-clockwise) - 1,171
  12. A1016 Westway, Chelmsford (junction with Robjohns Road) - 662
  13. A120, near Stebbing - 651
  14. A414 Epping Road, Chipping Ongar - 618

  15. A1016 Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford (near junction with Forest Drive) - 574

  16. B1256 Coggeshall Road, Braintree (east of junction with Bartram Avenue) - 557
  17. A414 Maldon Road, Danbury (near the junction with Gay Bowers Lane) - 507
  18. B1008 Broomfield Road, Chelmsford (near junction with Westfield Avenue) - 485
  19. A1124 Lexden Road (east of Norman Way, Colchester) - 472
  20. A129 Rayleigh Road, Hutton - 467
  21. A1060 Parkway, Chelmsford (junction with Coval Lane) - 459
  22. A1060 Maldon Road, Great Baddow - 432
  23. A112 Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey - 414
  24. A1060, Leaden Roding - 411
  25. A 121 High Road, Loughton (near the junction with Spring Grove) - 390
  26. A13 London Road, Hadleigh (near the junction with Alma Road) - 384
  27. B173 Lambourne Road, Chigwell - 376
  28. B 173 Manor Road, Chigwell (east of junction with Forest Lane) - 374
  29. B1014 Essex Way, Benfleet - 374
  30. A1090 Tank Hill Road, Purfleet - 352