Midlands roads where most drivers are hit with parking fines as 48 punished every week at hotspot
The roads in parts of the West Midlands where drivers get hit by parking fines most often have been revealed. Thousands of parking penalties were slapped onto windscreens in the Black Country areas of Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall last year.
And drivers now know the streets they need to take extra care if they want to avoid being hit in the pocket. These are the areas the traffic wardens visit most often.
Unsurprisingly, this is mostly on the streets of the town and city centre. Motorists are less likely to get away with parking on double yellows, failing to pay or overstaying in these areas. The Black Country parking fine hotspot in Anderson Road in Smethwick, a small street close to the busy Hagley Road which has a number of designated parking zones.
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Here, a massive 2,292 penalty charge notices were issued in 2024, up to November. That works out to around 48 every week, showing how often parking rules are broken along the street.
Other top roads for penalties included High Street, West Bromwich and High Street, Smethwick. Over in Walsall, hundreds more fines were handed out in Bridge Street than anywhere else in the borough. The full list can be seen below. It comes after we revealed the parking fine hotspots in Birmingham, which can be seen here.
Exclusive data obtained by BirminghamLive under freedom of information laws showed how Sandwell Council hands out many more parking penalties than its Black Country counterparts - and brings in much more money from fines.
Sandwell Council made a whopping £896,715, compared to £477,023 in Walsall, £346,259 in Wolverhampton and £174,236 in Dudley.
Sandwell
Anderson Road, Smethwick - 2,292
High Street, West Bromwich - 1,794
High Street, Smethwick 1,625
Bearwood Road, Smethwick 1,214
Poplar Road, Smethwick 1,239
Wattis Road, Smethwick 1,055
Little Lane, West Bromwich 1,023
Victoria Street, West Bromwich 638
Waterloo Road, Smethwick 417
Lyndon, West Bromwich 422
Wolverhampton
Cleveland Street - 720
Wulfruna Street - 604
Thornley Street - 570
Market Street - 517
Berry Street - 515
Red Lion Street - 444
Waterloo Road - 421
Bilston Street - 320
Cheapside - 317
Queen Street -300
Dudley
High Street, Pensnett - 482
Bushey Fields Road, Dudley - 463
High Street, Dudley - 452
High Street, Stourbridge - 272
New Street, Dudley - 199
Stone Street, Dudley - 192
Castle Street, Dudley - 167
High Street, Brierley Hill - 122
Paganel Drive, Dudley - 118
Walsall
Bridge Street - 1214
Lower Hall Lane - 685
Station Street, Walsall - 608
Bradford Street - 592
Freer Street - 584
Newport Street - 519
Lichfield Street - 474
Goodall Street - 462
Hillary Street - 380
Stafford Street, Walsall - 377