ESSEX Police spotted over 77,000 speeding offences in the space of just one year.
New data gathered by Legal Expert reveals that the force caught 77,573 people speeding in the year ending March 2025.
Speeding drivers get three points added to their license as a minimum. Reaching 12 points within three years will disqualify them from driving.
The fixed penalty for speeding is £100. That means that a whopping £7,757,300 worth of potential penalties were racked up in Essex in 2024/25–although not every incident led to a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN).
A case in point is the A176 Nethermayne/Ashdon Way crossroads. The Basildon junction was the ‘worst’ place in Essex for speeding, with the police capturing 9,600 incidents. That works out at more than one offence every hour on average.
Yet only around a quarter of cases (2,457) led to an FPN being handed out.
The M11 also featured heavily in police reports of speeding. Across the year, 7,923 people were spotted going too fast on the motorway, which has a 70mph speed limit.
If the A13 trunk road going from Ship Lane Bridge to Purfleet Road Bridge in Aveley was bad (4,115 speeding drivers), then it was barely any better going the other way (4,075 drivers).
And Southend’s Arterial Road appeared three times in the top 20 list, thanks to heavy speeding activity at two junctions as well as on the road itself.
Here are the top 20 roads for speeding offences in Essex:
Key: Road – offences (FPNs issued)
A176 Nethermayne junction with Ashdon Way, Basildon – 9,600 (2,457)
M11 – 7,923 (3,170)
A13 trunk road (Ship Lane Bridge – Purfleet Road Bridge) – 4,115 (1,604)
A13 trunk road (Purfleet Road Bridge – Ship Lane Bridge) – 4,075 (1,626)
M25 between Junctions 27-26 Westbound – 3,351 (1,151)
A282 trunk road, Dartford-Thurrock crossing, Grays – 3,278 (1,112)
A13 trunk road between Stifford & Wennington Interchanges, Aveley – 2,226 (921)
A127 Eastbound from junction with High Road, Laindon to junction with A132 Nevendon Road, Wickford – 1,223 (436)
A127 Southend Arterial Road, junction with Progress Road, Southend – 1,159 (386)
A127 Southend Arterial Road, junction with Bellhouse Lane, Southend – 1,056 (337)
A130 Canon Barns Bridge, East Hanningfield – 914 (355)
M25 between Junctions 26-27 Eastbound – 890 (311)
B1022 Maldon Road, junction with School Road, Great Totham – 872 (223)
A12, Terling Hall Road overpass bridge, Hatfield Peverel – 792 (282)
A127 Southend Arterial Road – 672 (210)
A1023 Shenfield Road – 645 (161)
A1016 Waterhouse Lane – 604 (137)
A414 – 529 (186)
A1235 Cranes Farm Road, junction with Miles Gray Road, Basildon – 529 (160)
Plough Road, junction with Weeley Road, Great Bentley – 523 (116)
The force also revealed the five worst speeding offenders in the region between April 2024 and now. Four people were clocked at more than 120mph at one point in the past year, including one driver in June 2024 who reached 130mph on the A130.
The worst five speeding offenders in Essex (all on roads with a 70mph limit):
130mph, A130, June 2024
125mph, A120 Dunmow bypass towards Stansted Airport, February 2025
123mph, A120, May 2025
121mph, M11 (a), May 2024
114mph, A120, April 2024
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