Friday 23rd June 2006

Scamera partnership messes up

'I knew it wasn't me caught on camera'

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'We rarely mess up'

A driver accused of speeding has had her ticketing decision reversed as the local camera partnership admitted its mistake.

Donna Frampton was driving on a dual carriageway -- Wessex Way in Bournemouth -- and passed a speed camera she knew about, ensuring that she was driving at no more than the 50mph limit. Despite this, she got a ticket accusing her of driving at 58mph.

She called the central ticket office to complain, said it wasn't her, that there was a car in the other lane, and demanded to see the photo taken by the scamera. Two hours later, she got a call to say that the system had messed up, and that she was in the clear. The ticket should have gone to an overtaking car, according to the story in the Dorset Echo (link below).

The scamera partnership said that it had made a mistake, that an investigation would be held, and that it was normally very very accurate, honest.

Naturally, this begs the question as to whether the scamera should have been there in the first place, and how many people just pay up without checking that the photo is actually of them at all. There's a moral there for us all.

• Dorset Echo: ‘I knew it wasn’t me caught on camera!’

[Stubby Pete]

Anybody willing to bet that the other car didn't initially get a ticket too and the car parked on the side of the road and any other number plate that could be read within the picture!!!???

These Scameras just try it on sometimes, if they get away with it more money, if they don't, tax payers foot the bill for the paperwork.

The whole thing is a joke, (not that I'm pi$$ed off with being caught or anything), I'm willing to bet that in the next ten years there will be franchises for vans/static cameras for sale by local authorities.