Midlands speed cameras to go digital in £1.2m plan

Saturday 5th November 2011, 10:59AM GMT.

Speed cameras in the West Midlands will be replaced with digital ones in a £1.2 million project so that running out of film is no longer a problem.

Also, images will be processed instantly. The money would cover upgrades for around 34 cameras on the region’s most dangerous roads. They are likely to include three in Wolverhampton, two in Walsall, six in Sandwell and four in Dudley with a further 18 in Birmingham and one in Solihull. Exact locations are kept secret to prevent vandalism.

Those cameras are the only ones switched on most of the time and are the ones police intend to replace.

Official reports reveal the old wet film cameras have just two years of operational life left.

Unlike conventional Gatso speed cameras, which run out of film after 200 shots, new cameras will be able to process every speeding driver.

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