Birmingham Postcode is Top of The Speeding Drivers Charts

A Freedom of Information request was sent to the DVLA by leasing company Wessex Fleet to reveal the number of drivers with an endorsement offence/s for speeding on their license in 2021, broken down by postcode area and offence code, after they previously investigated the roads that had the most speeding offences. The data as of May 2021 revealed that a whopping 3.3 million people have speeding fines on their licence right now.

The Postcodes With The Most Speeding Offences Recorded

Birmingham ‘B’ is the postcode area with the most speeding offences with 91,566.

Speeding offences in the Birmingham area topped the list, with over 90,000 drivers caught speeding. In second place was Sheffield with 74,069 speeding offences, closely followed by Nottingham with 71,536.

But which are the safest postcodes for driving fines according to the data?

According to government data, Lerwick (the Shetland Islands in Scotland) is the UK postcode with the least number of driving offences for speeding. Lerwick has a total of 561 speeding offences, 84% less than Birmingham’s 91,566. Surprisingly it is closely followed by ‘WC’ a postcode in central London with 603 offences. The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, plus a very small part of the City of London.

This could be due to the lack of cars being registered to addresses in central London, as very few people can afford to live there and own a car, since there is nowhere to park it legally.