Speed Cameras

[flump1]

Do speed cameras ever lie? A friend is facing prosecution for an allegation of speeding through roadworks where a speed camera was in operation. He is adamant he was not exceeding the limit but the vehicle overtaking him might well have been. The said vehicle then sped away . My friend was driving a vehicle fitted with a tachograph and the reading said if anything he was one mile an hour over the limit of fourty, rather than the fourty nine he has been accused of. He maintains he did not speed and has a clean driving licence with no offences pending other than this one. Can it be that this vehicle on the right-hand lane could of triggered the camera?

[tellboy]

If you have a tacho readout this is surely a legal document. I can not set how a speeding ticket would stand a chance in Court ?

[trevHCS]

Not lie as such, but unless the cameras were covering lanes individually then the camera would have taken a picture of the other vehicle and thus he just needs to ask for a copy of that and it gives reasonable doubt. The tacho should give pretty overwealming evidence that something is wrong.

Do you know if it was a standard flash type speed camera or one of those average (SPECS) cameras that sits above motorway roadworks sometimes?

Trev

[madman06]

tell your m8 to check all the signs were correct at the time he got done,(I.E) 40 / SPEED CAMERA SIGN/ then camera sign /40 these must be alternated through the job and set out across from each other for the speeding ticket to stand

[oldhamfan]

His tachograph will overrule the camera reading. There is a precedent for this.

[flump1]

Thank you all for your answers, I will pass on your coments to my friend. It would appear the tachograph is used as a prosecution tool yet not as a defence one !! Bless the powers that be !

[Toureman]

They do not lie but they can be innacurate! try proving it in court though.