How to Check Your Number Plate Is Legal Before You Drive and Avoid a £1,000 Fine
Avoid a costly mistake
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UK speed camera guide and travel app
Know what is ahead. Keep your attention on the road.
Understand UK speed cameras, prepare your route and receive useful journey alerts with Speed Cameras Radar by SocialsMap.
Available for iPhone and Android.
A rebuilt independent resource
Practical guidance, with a clear source trail
This is a new edition of SpeedCameras.org. Historical URLs are preserved where a useful, original replacement exists; old campaign copy and archived photographs have not been republished.
UK guides
Start with the road, not the device
Guide
UK camera guidelines
What the historic guidance said and what applies now.
Read guide →GuideFacts, technology and myths
Fixed, mobile, average-speed and red-light systems explained.
Read guide →GuideAverage-speed cameras
How point-to-point measurement works across a road section.
Read guide →GuideMobile cameras
Why no list is complete, and how to prepare a journey.
Read guide →Latest UK stories
Road and driving news from SocialsMap
Headlines and summaries update from SocialsMap. Each story opens at its original source.
The overlooked motorway rule that can turn a routine manoeuvre into careless driving
This common mistake adds up
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Local A-road journeys: why 24.6 mph changes the time you should allow
The local camera mistake to
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The dashcam parking mode setting that can quietly flatten a healthy battery
Hidden battery loss while parked
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Preconditioning: the EV range boost drivers miss before setting off
The small habit costing miles
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When to replace brake fluid before stopping power fades: the detail many drivers miss
The hidden fade mistake
Read on SocialsMapFrom the archive
The addresses this site kept
These addresses existed on the original SpeedCameras.org. Each one now holds newly written material on the same subject rather than a copy of the page it replaced.
Archive
The UK camera debate
History, criticism and what the evidence supports.
Read page →ArchiveSpeeding fines and penalties
The current penalty, notice process and court maximums.
Read page →Archive“8,000 illegally prosecuted”
Checking a historic claim that survives in old links.
Read page →ArchiveAlerts and distraction
Configure before you drive and keep attention on the road.
Read page →ArchiveApp gallery
Current first-party screens, with a clear image policy.
Read page →ArchiveAbout this site
Domain history, new ownership and editorial commitments.
Read page →iPhone and Android
Prepare before you set off
Use the app as a journey aid, never as a reason to interact with a phone while moving.