Work by Cumbria police to crackdown on speeding offences has been praised after figures reduced by 13 per cent against the previous year. Barrow councillor Bill McEwan said the constabulary deserved credit after it recorded 35,039 speeding offences in 2019-20, according to the RAC Foundation, down decrease compared to the 40,104 offences recorded during the previous year. Cllr McEwan, who is a Cumbria County Council representative for the county Casualty Reduction and Safer Highways Group (CRASH), said: “It’s absolutely fantastic news, this is what we want and I would love to see it drop even further. “I think it’s down to policing and the way they’ve made the signs available to get people to slow down and drivers are taking notice of this.