Five Worcestershire roads feature in West Mercia’s top ten for reported mobile phone offences, according to police records.
Accident Claims Advice’s research into people using devices while on the road found the section of the A38 passing through Bromsgrove was the site of 45 offences between April 2023 and March this year.
The M5 appears twice in the figures, with 40 people seen using their phones driving between junctions 7 and 8, and another 37 doing the same while going the opposite way.
The stretch between junctions 1 and 2 also features in the region’s top ten, hosting 33 incidents. The A441 at Hopwood also appears, with motorists spotted 30 times in two years.
The top two spots for the region are taken by the A5 Eastbound near Shrewsbury (host to a whopping 334 mobile phone offences) and Belmont Road in Hereford (128 offences).
West Mercia Police’s breakdown of offences by town doesn’t feature Worcestershire in the top three, but ten of the county’s towns appear in the regional top 15.
That includes Worcester, where 309 people were found to have used their phone while on the road.
Bromsgrove, Droitwich Spa and Kidderminster follow Worcester in the list, as the sources of 244, 134 and 129 device-related misdemeanours respectively.
Worcestershire accounts for 1,246 of the 2,897 mobile phone offences spotted by West Mercia Police across the 2023/24 and 2024/25 periods – over 40 per cent of the total.
With the Fixed Penalty Notice for a mobile phone offence set at £200, Worcestershire drivers were faced with £249,200 worth of fines.
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