Treasury's Pounds 50k from borough's six speed cameras

SLOW DOWN: 825 drivers are fined for fast driving in a year MOREthan 800 speeding tickets were issued to motorists who set offstationary speed cameras in Brentwood last year, swelling theGovernment's coffers by almost Pounds 50,000.

The Gazette has learned that the borough's six fixed safetycameras caught 825 people speeding in 2010/ 11.

Each driver was slapped with a Pounds 60 fine, raising Pounds49,500 for the Treasury.

In Essex as a whole, stationary cameras issued 29,266 speedingtickets in 2010/11 - raking in more than Pounds 1.7 million.

The most lucrative camera in Brentwood can be found in ShenfieldRoad, near its junction with Middleton …