The Oamaru device in Wansbeck St/State Highway 1 was responsible for nearly 10,000 tickets in the nine months to the end of September.
Of Otago’s four fixed cameras, it soared above the rest in the number of tickets dished out.
In data released to the Otago Daily Times under the Official Information Act, the Wansbeck St camera topped the charts as the most prolific ticketer — fixed or mobile — in Otago and Southland, clocking 9893 offences recorded between January and September this year.
The amount of tickets over the period averaged out to be more than 36 a day — more than one ticket an hour.
Sergeant Tony Woodbridge, of Oamaru, said obviously the statistics showed people were speeding in the area.
Not many crashes had been recorded in the area, he said.
It was a busy stretch of road with a service station and a supermarket in the vicinity and sun strike was also an issue.
Local drivers were aware of the speed camera, he said.
Five static speeding cameras were introduced to Otago and Southland in March 2018 in areas police identified problems with excessive speeds and/or have a history of crashes causing death or serious injury.
Other high-hitters included two mobile cameras situated at different points in Cardrona Valley Rd, one recording 7067 offences and the other 1968.
A mobile camera in Arthurs Point Rd recorded 5371 tickets and a fixed speeding camera on the Dunedin Southern Motorway caught 1907 motorists.
The fixed camera with the lowest offences between January and September was the King Edward St camera in South Dunedin, with 135 speeding infringements recorded.
The mobile camera with the lowest offences recorded was in Gladstone Rd South, with only one infringement.
Invercargill’s Otatara Rd static speed camera was not included in the statistics.
