Councillor Simon Phipps wants the cameras to cover Stourbridge Road, which has a 30mph limit. Back in 2019 it was announced that Average Speed Enforcement Cameras, funded by Dudley Council, had been switched on along the A458 Lye to Halesowen route, made up of The Hayes/Park Road/Drews Holloway/Stourbridge Road. But cllr Phipps said, contrary to reports, there are actually no average speed cameras on Stourbridge Road. He has written to West Midlands Police and has met with Dudley Council calling for them to be installed along the road which he says is plagued by speeding drivers. Cllr Phipps, who represents the Belle Vale ward, and is working with the local Conservative team on the campaign, said: There s a lot of confusion because when the new average cameras were switched on there was a list of all the roads along the A458 from Lye to Halesowen including Stourbridge Road, but they actually stop at the top of Drews Holloway by its junction with Coleman Hill.
A Rowley Regis man who admitted driving without due care and two offences of drug-driving has been banned for a year and ordered to pay £635 in fines and costs. Mark Andrew Woodbine, aged 29, of Limes Avenue, was driving over the allowed limit with two different drugs in his blood at Buffery Road. Other local cases at recent magistrates court hearings included: A Brierley Hill teenager was given a 40-week suspended jail sentence when he appeared in court on five assault charges, four of them on emergency workers. Reece Judd admitted attacks on two police officers and an assault on Luke Yewen, plus smashing his Iphone and denting the side of his car. All these offence took place in Coseley last July.
A Brierley Hill teenager was given a 40-week suspended jail sentence when he appeared in court on five assault charges, four of them on emergency workers. Reece Judd, aged 18, admitted attacks on two police officers and an assault on Luke Yewen, plus smashing his Iphone and denting the side of his car. All these offence took place in Coseley last July. In a separate case he pleaded guilty to assaulting an ambulance technician and a paramedic in Mount Pleasant, Quarry Bank. Judd, of Moor Street, was sentenced to a total of 40 weeks in jail, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work within the next year. He must also pay fines, costs and compensation totaling £750.