OXFORDSHIRE’S busiest speed cameras have finally been revealed.

Bosses have published the average number of times each camera snapped drivers from 2003 to last year.

The fixed and mobile cameras were turned off two months ago after Oxfordshire County Council cut funding.

The fixed speed camera which caught the most motorists was on the A40 at Barnard Gate, near Witney, on the busy road to Cheltenham.

It clocked about 95 motorists breaking the 60mph limit each day between 2007 and 2009.

The mobile speed camera which caught the most speeders was in Shirburn Road, Watlington, with an average of 25 motorists an hour.

But 29 of the county’s 72 fixed speed cameras had recorded an average of less than two offences each over the past three years.

Bosses said they had been switched off or vandalised.

Statistics obtained by the Oxford Mail showed 255,526 motorists were caught breaking the speed limit by the cameras since 2006, netting the Government about £1m a year.

They were switched off on August 1 after Oxfordshire County Council withdrew £600,000 funding.

Mark McArthur-Christie, chairman of the Oxford group of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said the figures backed the switch- off.

He said: “Those people were exceeding the speed limit by a reasonable amount yet the roads of Oxfordshire are not strewn with the bodies of their victims.

“This makes a mockery of the camera argument that speed in excess of the limit is the major danger in road safety.”

Hugh Jaeger, Oxfordshire spokesman of the British Motorcyclists Federation, said: “This shows different camera sites had a huge difference in performance.”

He said switching the least effective cameras off – as in Buckinghamshire – made more sense. He said Oxfordshire’s blanket approach was “indiscriminate and just lets the petrol heads off the leash”.

County council spokesman Owen Morton said: “Regardless of the presence of speed cameras, we would always urge people to obey the speed limit.”