The worst roads in Scotland for speeding fines are unveiled
Nearly 50,000 drivers were caught speeding in a year in Scotland and received Fixed Penalty Notices from police. And new data shows the roads where offences happened the most.
The country's worst road for being caught speeding by a camera was a stretch of the A9 between Inverness and Dunblane and in second place was the A90 between Dunblane and Stonehaven.
The figures, gathered by Legal Expert, showed that Police Scotland informed 49,609 drivers that they had committed a speeding offence in the year ending March 2025. The figure only accounts for offences captured through fixed, mobile or average speed cameras.
Motorists caught speeding will usually see three points added to their licence. Reaching 12 points within three years will disqualify them from driving.
They are also sent a Conditional Offers of a Fixed Penalty Notice (COFPNs).
The fixed penalty for speeding is £100 and this means that drivers caught in Scotland face a staggering £4,960,900 worth of potential fines.
Police Scotland has also confirmed most of the 'worst' 20 roads for speeding offences in the past year.
The force would not reveal which roads with fixed cameras had the most cases, stating: 'We are unable to provide any location data for Fixed Speed cameras as to do so would reveal information about which sites were live at any given time.
"Disclosure would clearly indicate the enforcement activity of particular cameras and show patterns/ trends, thereby encouraging drivers to commit offences, based on an assumption that they are unlikely to be detected at particular sites/ dates etc. Such an impact on driver behaviour renders safety cameras ineffective as a road safety measure."
The busiest camera in the country, according to the figures, is an average speed camera on the A9. Drivers going southbound from Inverness to Dunblane committed 8,413 offences, which works out at close to one every hour on average.
Those offences led to 4,229 people receiving a COFPN.
Second on the list was the A90 between Dundee and Stonehaven, where 7,994 drivers exceeded the speed limit.
The A90 appears twice more in the top 20.
Part of its Edinburgh leg, between Burnshot Flyover and Cammo Road, is fifth on the list (4,296 offences) while the intersection of Dundee's Kingsway West and Charlotte Street is tenth (1,512 offences).
Here are the top 20 roads for speeding offences in Scotland:
Location
Camera Type
Offences
COFPNs Issued
A9 Specs Inverness to Dunblane
Average Speed
8413
4229
A90 Specs Dundee to Stonehaven
Average Speed
7994
4173
M80 South between J1 offslip and the merge with the M8 West J13 (roadworks)
Average Speed
4847
3439
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
4441
2703
A90 Road Edinburgh between Burnshot Flyover and Cammo Road
Mobile
4296
3255
M80, near to Junction 9 slip road, Bannockburn
Average Speed
3496
2276
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
2993
2240
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
2869
1905
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
1543
857
A90 Aberdeen to Dundee at Kingsway West Charlotte Street
Mobile
1512
1078
M80 near to Barnego Road Overbridge Dunipace
Mobile
1417
1152
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
1325
810
A68 Road Soutra Hill North From the West Entrance to Dunlaw Wind Farm Scottish Borders
Mobile
1288
984
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
1269
624
A77 Bogend to Hansel Village
Average Speed
1180
731
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
1125
621
Fixed Speed
Fixed Speed
1038
335
M74 South Lesmahagow between Junction 9 and Junction 11
Average Speed
915
269
A96 near Bainshole
Mobile
772
617
A92 New Inn to Glenrothes at Balfarg Junction
Mobile
724
552
The force also revealed the five worst speeding offenders in the region. Topping this list was a driver who, in August 2024, clocked 148mph on the A68 in the Scottish Borders–a whopping 88mph over speed limit.
Just months later, the same stretch of A road was the site of a horror crash that left Hibs assistant manager Eddie May hospitalised. A 29-year-old man was charged with a road traffic offence after the incident.
In all, four drivers broke the 130mph mark, according to speed camera detection. Half of them were going over a 60mph speed limit at the time.
The worst five speeding offenders in Scotland:
Speed
(mph)
Site
Speed
limit
Year
Month
148
A68 Road Soutra Hill North From the West Entrance to Dunlaw Wind Farm Scottish Borders
60
2024
August
138
70
2025
February
134
M80 near to Barnego Road Overbridge Dunipace
70
2024
July
131
A82 1 mile south of Altsigh Youth Hostel near Invermoriston
60
2024
July
126
A1 at Haddington, East Lothian
70
2025
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