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Rural Engagement Team helping to keep our rural roads safe
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Helping to keep our rural roads safe for all is a top priority for our rural engagement officers.
And they have conducted speed checks at more than 170 locations in villages and other rural areas in the past 11 months.
This week, they’ve been out in Dunmow, Lawford, Mistley and White Roding. While the vast majority of motorists were keeping to speed limits, ten people were issued with fixed penalty notices for speeding.
The highest speed recorded was 43mph in a 30mph zone in Dunmow.
Officers there also seized a vehicle under section 165 of the Road Traffic Act for being driven without insurance.
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In White Roding, as well as issuing a fixed penalty notice, officers spoke to four drivers about local speeding concerns.
In Lawford and Mistley, nine people were recorded speeding, with the highest speed being 40mph in a 30mph restriction.
The team spoke with residents who asked how they could assist with keeping traffic speeds down in the local area. Our officers pointed them towards Community Speed Watch schemes.
Between 1 January and 31 August 2025, our Rural Engagement Team detected 538 speeding offences across Essex and also reported 46 drivers for a variety of other traffic offences, including driving without a seatbelt, using a mobile phone and driving without due care and attention.
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Want to start or join a Community Speed Watch group in your area?
If you are interested in forming or joining a local Community Speed Watch group, visit the Community Speed Watch webpages for more information.
Volunteers are trained by the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) to use hand-held speed guns safely and correctly and to record the speeds of passing vehicles.
You will be joining groups of committed volunteers helping to make our roads safer by encouraging drivers to reduce their speed and contribute towards SERP’s Vision Zero strategy, which aims to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on Essex roads to zero by 2040.
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