Tractor fined for doing 85mph!

[Ali_Kat]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4626952.

BBC said:

A farmer from Wiltshire has received an apology after he was accused of doing 85mph on his tractor in south Wales. Steve Crossman was sent a ticket after a speed camera on the A465 near Neath allegedly snapped him. But the six-year-old green-and-yellow tractor has a top speed of only 26mph and has never been to Wales. Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership said it had misread a number plate and has apologised. The real speeding driver escaped a ticket. The first 49-year-old Mr Crossman knew of his tractor's alleged antics was when a letter arrived at home, Mill Farm in Horningsham near Warminster. He said: "The letter arrived and we opened it and it was from South Wales Police and it was a speeding ticket. "We couldn't work out why because we hadn't been to Wales for about five years, then we noticed the actual number plate was the number plate of my tractor. "It's a good tractor, but not that good. It can just about get up to 26mph, but that's downhill, with a following wind and with no trailer on the back. There's no way it could get close to 85mph." He rang up to let the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership know his six-year-old John Deere 6910 tractor had never been over the Severn Bridge into Wales. "The lady that I spoke to found it quite amusing and said they would investigate it. A couple of days later they phoned through and said they had misread the number plate."

[miniman]

Amusing, but how many people have received a similar NIP and paid up, thinking that they were in the area of a speed cam at the time, but in reality were not?

[hedders]

precisely...

And did this guy only get away with it because he drives a tractor and not a similar car to the one that was allegedly speeding? etc etc.