68,000 Speeding Fines May Need To Be Refunded In Australia Due To Faulty Cameras
from the where's-that-brick-wall-heading dept
For many years, we've noted that speed cameras were notoriously unreliable, with stories of brick walls traveling at high rates of speed, a car being clocked at an astounding 420 mph and another story where a parked car was given multiple speeding tickets, all while remaining blissfully stationed at the curb.One of the main traffic camera providers is the company Redflex, which has been having trouble lately, as many governments are ditching the cameras. And it looks like things may be getting even worse. Reader midofo points us to the news that the government in Victoria, Australia is now realizing that its Redflex speed cameras were faulty. There's now an investigation into just how many fines will need to be refunded. Of course, the only reason they figured this out was because a woman got a ticket for traveling nearly 100 mph in a car that simply could not go that fast. That resulted in an investigation and the discovery that the cameras weren't working properly (of course, some might argue that since the cameras are really just about revenue generation they were working just fine...).
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Filed Under: australia, faulty, speed cameras, speeding tickets
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What was she driving?
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420MPH
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Re: 420MPH
During a shake down run the driver was about to kick in the afterburner on the LSR vehicle when several kangaroo's were sucked into the turbine forcing a shutdown.
The goal for this run was 520MPH, we'll be back!
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The drop bears are worse.....
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The Victorian State government is declining to refund the 68,000 infringement notices. Apparently a clock skew is not a "systematic error."
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