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Britain’s motorists pay £300 million a year in fines for driving offences

Motorists paid more than £300 million in fines during 2019, figures reveal.

Drivers in Norfolk paid the most with 485,188 committing 106,876 offences.

They paid out £11 million in fines.

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Second was Bedfordshire with 77,103 fines from 356,300 people.

Car lease firm Moneyshake analysed data from 43 forces.

It said Norfolk’s tally equates “to one in five drivers hit with a fine per year”.

Jack Cousens, from the AA, said the lack of motorways in Norfolk might account for its poor driving record.

He said: “It could be that even though they have no motorways they could have a high density of static [speed] cameras.

“They could also have a police force that understands policing the roads is a good thing as you can stop other forms of crime.”

Essex drivers received the most fines for careless driving and not wearing a seat belt.

The best-behaved motorists live in Wiltshire, where the equivalent of just 0.5 per cent of the 524,400 vehicles received a fixed penalty notice.

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