Has anyone been nabbed by one recently. I was had in January and the letter duly came a couple of weeks later, saying i was doing 40mph in a 30mph zone. I disagree with this of course, as it was on a gradiant and just off a roundabout.
I wrote to them asking for the photographic evidence and two photos were sent back to me. The first shows my van and the background, and the second is just a close up of the van showing no background. My arguement will be when i go to court is that how can i physically disprove their claim by measuring the distance as the second picture doesn't show any background.
Also their laser equipment had been used for 10 months since being calibrated and was due to be calibrated again in two months time. If the police can absolutely state that their equipment is accurate all the time, why bother to have them calibrated at all
Having worked with laser monitoring equipment in the cable industry i can tell you that the are not accurate all the time, and i know of a speed indicator sign that informs me of travelling at 50mph when in fact i am doing 40mph. Maybe because my van has a sloping front, it gives an adverse reading or even road vibration.
If anybody runs into this sort of problem, there is a website called pepipoo that gives you all the legal advice for free. In one year the safety camera partnership pulled in 121 millon pounds in fines. Don't get me wrong, if they are parked outside a school and catch speeding cars, good, but they always seem to pick on easy targets not the speeding youths. As i only have 3 points already, i am not worried about an additional 3 or the fine, it's just a matter of principle.
Any thoughts on this or you have been caught out?
Dave
