accuracy of speed cameras [85 but was doing 29]

[lookinforinfo]

i have just read an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph from the 10th June. a motorist was threatened with Court for doing 85 MPH by a Gatso camera in Staffordshire. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/questions-raised-over-accuracy-of-speed-cameras-after-driver-doi/?ref=yfp

 

The case was dropped and the motorist had his legal fees of £2000 reimbursed after it was proved he was only doing 29.5MPH.

 

On being questioned about the huge discrepancy which calls the whole use of speed cameras into question the Police said "This is the only time this type of error, to the best of our knowledge, has not been picked up prior to going to court. This was a one-off individual error."

 

The inference is therefore that these anomalies have been found before but have been spotted before going to Court. The question is how do these errors occur and how many are not spotted and the difference in speeds is not that great that motorists just pay up rather than question the

speed camera accuracy

[sameagle]

I think that if you google "this is staffordshire", you can read a copy of "The Sentinel", the local paper that reported it, just last week

 

Sam, (in Staffordshire)

[dx100uk]

here you go:

 

 

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Speed-calculated-whopping-56mph/story-29382661-detail/story.html