Over 18,000 Tickets Issued By Mobile Speed Cameras In The East Riding

Thousands of motorists have been caught out by mobile safety cameras across the region, as Humberside Police reveal the East Riding accounts for half of all road deaths in the Humber area.

The number of tickets issued by mobile speed cameras in the East Riding has been revealed, alongside stark new figures detailing road casualties in the area.

A recent sub-committee meeting on road safety heard a presentation from Humberside Police Superintendent Gary Foster, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Leo Hammond, and Ruth Gore, the Marketing Officer for Safer Roads Humber.

They revealed that a significant number of motorists were issued with tickets last year for various offences detected by safety camera vans.

Ruth Gore from Safer Roads Humber said:

"There are 107 mobile safety camera sites within the shared in and that that actually represents about 44% of the enforcement that actually happens across the region.

In 2025, there was 18,300 tickets issued from the detection of the safety camera vans. Mainly speed but they also could detect mobile phone offences, careless driving, seatbelt offences, number plate offences, so they can detect stuff that they can see to the end to the camera."

Alongside the enforcement figures, the sub-committee was warned that the East Riding represents the most significant proportion of deaths and injuries in the Humber area.

According to Humberside Police, out of forty-two road deaths across the Humber region in 2025, twenty-one were in the East Riding. So far in 2026, eleven out of twenty-three regional road deaths have occurred in the area.

This follows similar trends from previous years, with eleven out of thirty-three deaths in 2023, and twelve out of twenty-five deaths in 2024 happening in the East Riding.

The police stated that fatalities usually occur on rural routes or the main arterial routes linking to rural locations. The targeting of these Killed and Seriously Injured routes is based on assessments from the local authority.

The criminal use of the roads, along with those driving under the influence of drink and drugs, are major contributing factors to accidents and deaths. Data gathered through the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system allows the police to monitor data to target these criminals.

Humberside Police currently have fifty Roads Policing Officers who deal with offences ranging from speeding and driving without seatbelts to mobile phone distraction and driving without due care.

The Roads Policing Team dealt with around 1,110 offenders in March and April 2026 alone, in addition to dealing with road traffic collisions. Officers are using expensive drug wipes every day to check for drink and drug drivers, with the force noting that the figures for these offences have increased.

To help combat the issue and meet a government target to reduce road deaths and serious injuries by sixty-five per cent by 2035, various initiatives are being deployed.

Community Speed Watch schemes are enabling local volunteers to work with neighbourhood police teams and a co-ordinator using hand-held detection equipment. They pass details of speeding offenders to the police.

Offenders receive a first warning letter from the police. If they are caught again, a second warning letter is issued, and a third warning letter results in a direct visit from a police officer. The force says this approach ultimately reduces the number of vehicles speeding.

Additionally, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner has funded Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera technology to help educate drivers via automatically generated letters. Following a successful trial in Bubwith, which saw a reduction in speeding drivers from forty per cent to thirteen per cent over two years, ten additional sites will be added in 2026.

These cameras are also able to tackle uninsured vehicles, leading to them being seized by officers.

Members of the public are also playing a role through Operation Snap, which allows people to send dashcam footage to the police, resulting in offenders being sent on education courses or facing further action.

Finally, working with Safer Roads Humber and the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, police are sending Safer Schools Officers into schools across the region to educate young people about the dangers of e-scooters, young driving, and motorcycles.