New data shows 69 per cent of speeding tickets issued in Oxfordshire are from mobile speed camera vans. Thames Valley Police caught 10,817 instances of speeding in the county for three months during the summer between July and September, the newly published figures show.

And of those, says the Oxford Mail, 7,512 vehicles were caught by somebody with a speed gun at the side of the road.

The worst area to get caught by a speed camera van is in the West Oxfordshire and Cherwell districts of the county, the data suggests, where 3,540 were caught in the three months.

During the same period in the same districts, fixed speed cameras flashed 710 times for speeding – the lowest data of the period in Oxfordshire.

Meanwhile in Oxford, more offences were clocked by a fixed speed camera than a mobile camera, at 1,433 clocked compared with 1,173 caught by a parked van. In South Oxfordshire and the Vale of the White Horse District Council area, fixed speed cameras flash 1,162 times compared with 2,799 speeding offences clocked using a mobile speed camera van.

Overall in Oxfordshire, fixed speed cameras flashed 3,305 times during the three months of summer, while mobile speed cameras recorded 7,512 instances of speeding.

(Picture: West Yorkshire Police)