3500 invalid speeding tickets
Published: 21st February 2008
Category: Fines & Points
Reader's Rage: [136votes]

It’s come to our attention that a speed camera has been operating illegally for over a year. The camera is set up to enforce a 30mph speed limit but the road doesn’t have a system of street lighting in line with government regulations to default the limit to 30mph. Therefore the speed limit may only have been enforceable as a single carriageway rather than a road with street lighting.

The camera is located in Lower Luton Road near St Albans in Hertfordshire and a refund will be given to drivers wrongly caught between 19th August 2004 and 25th August 2005. A Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) has since been put in place for the road which officially lowers its limit to 30mph.

Our comment: What a pity they can’t undo the damage caused to innocent drivers who wrongly lost their license or job because of the arrogance of the speed camera culture.

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