If this is another attempt on the part of journalists to sound sensationalist, it only does so because they carefully hide all the facts. In journalism, it's too easy to quote a BIG number that sounds good, but lacking in any context.
The A14 carries some 86,000 vehicles per hour, it's capacity is 60,000. While those figures relate to part of the A14 further north, the other side of Cambridge, I don't see them being that much less at Histon. Let's say 60,000 vehicles per day. At 12 tickets per day, that's 0.02% exceeding the limit enough to get a ticket (presuming enforcement at 10%+2). That's hardly a huge rate, and I suspect the number of people who don't understand the meaning of the word "average" is much higher, but were just lucky (or, more likely, unable to speed because of levels of traffic who were sticking to the limit).
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