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[Martinp]

UK: Motorcyclist Receives False Speed Camera Ticket
Photographic evidence proves a speed camera issued a bogus ticket to a UK motorcyclist.

False ticket evidenceMid-Glamorgan, UK motorcyclist Bryn Carlyon, 47, found that the only way to find justice after he received a false speed camera ticket was not to go to court. Instead, he brought his evidence to Motorcycle News.

Carlyon had received a police notice in the mail claiming he was exceeding the speed limit at 46 MPH. After going through the convoluted process of obtaining photographs of the incident from the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership, Carlyon calculated his speed. The photos showed he had moved less than the space of three lines -- six meters -- in 0.5 seconds. This means he was traveling no faster than 12 meters per second, or 26.8 MPH. Since the actual distance he traveled was less than six meters, he more likely was moving at 18 MPH.

Carlyon showed his calculation to the camera ticket partnership and they just told him he had to fight it in court on December 16. But as soon as Motorcycle News began making inquiries on Carlyon's behalf, the ticket partnership immediately dropped charges

"Before MCN stepped in, I didn't know what to do," said Carlyon. "How many people get these notices, don't know how fast they were going and just accept it?"

Source: Have you been wrongly convicted? (Motorcycle News, 12/21/2005)

Its all good news! But it mentions nowt about the fact that the cameras were never tested on motorbikes! which I thought was why MCN were backing him.


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[chris.p]

MCN does have it's uses then


Chris.

[antonye]

I read about this elsewhere, and the more in-depth discussion was not that it didn't pick up the motorcyclist, but that the radar was confused by the reflections from a large vehicle in the background - in this case the bus.

It's a bit of a "can of worms" because it's not a get-out-of-jail-free card for every motorcyclist who has been given a ticket from a camera. It does mean that the processing agency should be checking the speed against the lines in the road (that's what they're there for!) but has been failing to do so.

So not quite the magic bullet it first appears to be...