A12 camera records more than 3,000 speeding offences

The camera monitors a 50mph zone in both directions on the A12 at Martlesham, near Anson Road and Brightwell Lakes.

The camera recorded 3,016 speeding offences from its launch in September 2024 to the latest available figures for 2026.

Mark Packard, East Suffolk councillor for the Martlesham and Purdis Farm ward, said: "The speeding figures do show that speeding rates are falling on a year to year basis.

Mark Packard (Image: East Suffolk Council)

"The new traffic lights at Brightwell Lakes are working well for cars wanting to get into the new area and may well have impacted the speeding figures.

"I still note when I travel on this stretch of road there are vehicles that do speed and are therefore a danger to drivers that stick to the 50 mph speed limit."

The camera recorded 482 offences in its first months of operation in 2024: 330 northbound and 152 southbound.

The cameras were installed as part of the work to the road in Martlesham (Image: Google maps)

The total rose to 1,582 in 2025, including 631 northbound and 951 southbound offences.

The available 2026 figures show 952 offences so far: 461 northbound and 491 southbound.

So far in 2026, the camera has recorded 952 offences — 461 northbound and 491 southbound.

The Jenoptik Vector SR camera was activated in September 2024 and is capable of detecting both speeding and red-light violations.

The speed camera that has been installed (Image: Google maps)

Southbound offences far outnumbered northbound offences in 2025, but the two figures were much closer in the available 2026 data.

Year-on-year comparisons are unreliable because the camera only operated from September 2024 and the data does not say whether the 2026 figures cover a full year.

Separate figures recorded 309 red-light offences northbound and 245 southbound on the A12 at Martlesham between January 2023 and March 2026.