A SPEED camera has been “cut down” on a major A-road in Worcester.
The remnants of the fixed camera on the A449 near Hawford have been left in between the barriers of the central reservation.
Locals online have reported that the camera has been out of use for a number of weeks.
No plans to replace it
West Mercia Police has confirmed that the camera has been taken down after a crash a couple of weeks ago.
The camera is no longer active and there are no plans to replace it.
“The camera housing and pole were both damaged in a road traffic collision a couple of weeks ago,” a West Mercia Police Road Safety team spokesperson said.
“It had been decommissioned as an active speed enforcement site prior to this, so there are no plans to replace them at the moment.”
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Why are there so many speed cameras on the A449?
From 2001 to 2021, there were at least 35 crashes on the A449 between Worcester and Kidderminster, which has previously been dubbed a “killer road”.
The cameras near Hawford are understood to have been installed in 2008.
SPEED: The speed camera on the A449 near Hawford a year before it was cut down (Image: Google Maps)
In the eight months that followed the cameras’ installation, the Safer Road Partnership reported that the number of drivers breaking the speed limit had dropped from 20 per cent to less than one per cent.
Average speed cameras were then installed on the A449 in 2021, covering the stretch between Hartlebury and Ombersley.
Just two months after they went up, it was reported that 1,459 drivers had been caught breaking the 50mph speed limit.