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# New speed camera goes up after being chopped down by Plymouth ‘blade runners’
- URL: https://www.plymouthplus.co.uk/new-speed-camera-goes-up-after-being-chopped-down-by-plymouth-blade-runners/
- Published: 2025-12-17T13:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-18T21:20:55.000Z
- Author: Seamus McCoy
- Tags: St Budeaux, News, #editors-picks, Speed cameras

A new speed camera has been installed today after its predecessor was chopped down by Plymouth ‘blade runners’ overnight.

[Plymouth City Council](https://www.plymouthplus.co.uk/tag/plymouth-city-council/) has arranged for the replacement speed camera to be installed just in time for Christmas. 

The replacement speed camera has been erected on a lamppost on Victoria Road and is already being calibrated for activation.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/74/83/7483ab0e-4e89-48b0-a2a9-d29bc2bbbe08/content/images/2025/12/NN2A7483.JPG)

****Calibration markers are being used to calibrate the speed camera.** (Image: Plymouth Plus)

[Vandals chopped down the old camera overnight](https://www.plymouthplus.co.uk/speed-camera-chopped-down-by-vandals-overnight-in-plymouth/) at the beginning of November.

70% of Plymothians told Plymouuth Plus at the time that they felt Victoria Road did not need a speed camera.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/74/83/7483ab0e-4e89-48b0-a2a9-d29bc2bbbe08/content/images/2025/12/NN2A7488.JPG)

****The new speed camera on Victoria Road.**

The attachment for the new camera has been ‘reinforced’, making it harder for it to be maliciously removed from the lamppost.

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