Motorist clocked doing 90mph along city centre road

The road has a speed limit of 40mph

A driver was caught doing 90mph along one of Peterborough city centre’s busiest roads last year. Data sourced from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request showed the motorist was clocked racing down Bourges Boulevard at well over twice the maximum speed limit in 2025.

The data, which is compiled from Cambridgeshire Police’s speed cameras, show drivers in the city have used this stretch of the A15 at incredible speeds over the past few years. One motorist was recorded driving down the city centre street at 95 mph in 2023, while another reached 98mph in 2022.

The maximum speed limit on Bourges Boulevard is 40mph, although there are several parts of the road where traffic is restricted to 30mph. The data shows that this isn’t the only Peterborough road where drivers have persistently exercised an astonishing lack of speed awareness.

The city’s Fletton Parkway (A1339) is known to be a speeding hotspot, despite the fact it is a 60mph zone. The Eastbound section has seen cameras snap drivers showing scant regard for the speed limit, with 104mph recorded in 2023, and a mind-blowing 110mph clocked in 2021.

The cameras on this stretch of road recorded 13,958 speeding infringements between 2020 and 2024.