Almost 19,000 drivers were captured using their mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt during a two-week trial of new cameras powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
The AI cameras used in the pilot, which took place in March, were positioned in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Initial image scans found the Birmingham camera recorded 11,144 potential non-use of seat belt offences and 1,163 potential mobile phone offences.
The camera in Wolverhampton, meanwhile, recorded 6,081 potential seatbelt offences and 757 potential mobile phone offences.
Among the images captured is a front-seat passenger with a small child on their lap with no seatbelt, leaving the toddler completely unprotected in the event of a collision.
It is one of dozens of images of children being driven without age-appropriate restraints.
In another case a driver was captured holding their mobile phone with both hands, eyes on the screen rather than the road.
Approximately 2,000 motorists a year in the West Midlands are fined and given penalty points for driving while using a mobile phone.
There was no follow up enforcement of the violations this time due to the cameras being used in a trial. The exercise was intended in the first instance to help understand the potential scale of the problem.
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