Colchester's worst roads for speeding, as chosen by you

Due to the number of roadworks, the A12 is very much out of the picture when it comes to speeding, but there are plenty of other routes in Colchester and the surrounding areas where drivers risk other people’s safety to get to their destination a few minutes earlier.

Here are some of the roads in or around Colchester, as voted by you, where you see the most culprits.

Ipswich Road

Ipswich Road has plenty of 30mph speed cameras, but that doesn't deter some drivers (Image: Google Street View)

Ipswich Road, but worse are the drivers who, at rush hour, rush over the phantom island past the Ferrari garage, going over the protected right turn, to go down to the right turn traffic lights for Severalls Lane. This is not only selfish, it's dangerous as well as futile as those lights take a while to change, so they'll sit and wait. Some enforcement is needed here. – Nigel Brown

Layer Road

Layer Road is particularly dangerous for speeding, according to some of our readers (Image: Google Street View)

Layer Road. I invite Colchester Gazette reporters to come and visit my school crossing site in a morning or afternoon to see how dangerous it is. – Gregory Edwards

Main Road

Main road through Great Horkesley. I'm certain even lorries do close to 50mph sometimes, and the pavements are tiny. – Geoff Clark

Straight Road

Straight Road in the evening is awful, going past people drive at least double the speed limit. – Rebecca Kudyk

St Andrew's Avenue

Even though St Andrew's Avenue has a higher speed limit, drivers still speed along the road (Image: Google Street View)

St Andrew's Avenue is like a race track with some cars straight lining the Harwich Road roundabout at speed. – Pam Sinclair

Brightlingsea Road

Brightlingsea Road, from Thorrington Cross down into Brightlingsea. Utterly terrifying to pull out of the drive. With a 40mph speed limit, people regularly do 60+ around blind bends with drive entrances all along. – Emma McGregor

Berechurch Road

Without any speed cameras, Berechurch Road often sees drivers break the speed limit (Image: Google Street View)

Berechurch Road is bad for speeding, can imagine there being many accidents this winter. – Hannah Porter

Abbots Road

Abbots Road. Especially at night – Gav Coleman

Great Tey Village

Through the 30mph of Great Tey village, especially at night. People seem to think it's a racetrack. – Lynn Whitmore

Cowdray Avenue

Cowdray Avenue has seen drivers stopped for speeding before (Image: Daniel Rees, Newsquest)

Cowdray Avenue as drivers race to get ahead before the two lanes become one – Jane Green

Nowhere...

I would be happy If I could reach the speed limit in Colchester – Nicky Walker