Anybody here need to get their money back?
21 October 2003, 07:08 PM
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Thousands of motorists have been wrongly fined after being caught by a speed camera on the M4.
Around 2,500 motorists are thought to have been fined and given points on their licences. Some may even have lost their licences - and their jobs.
But it has now been revealed that the company operating the cameras, the Safety Camera Partnership, erected them in the wrong place - after the speed restrictions had been lifted.
The mix up centres around a 200 yard stretch of the M4 near Newport, above the Coldra roundabout. Since an accident there in July last year, speeds have been restricted to 50 mph because the hard-shoulder is out of action.
The speed restriction ends at the end of the roadworks, but the people who operate the speed cameras got confused and took pictures of drivers doing more than 50mph after the roadworks had ended.
Some drivers have already started to challenge their penalties and fines and have been successful. Newport Magistrates have confirmed that ten challenges have been successful in the last two weeks alone.
But the company is refusing to issue an amnesty to all the motorists affected. They insist each one must make individual claim.
The National Assembly which acts as the Highways Authority has admitted that there has been a problem.
But unless the Safety Camera Partnership has a change of heart, motorists could be facing a long process to get their money - and clean licences - back.
http://www.htvwales.com/htvwales-cgi/news/show?id=24
Around 2,500 motorists are thought to have been fined and given points on their licences. Some may even have lost their licences - and their jobs.
But it has now been revealed that the company operating the cameras, the Safety Camera Partnership, erected them in the wrong place - after the speed restrictions had been lifted.
The mix up centres around a 200 yard stretch of the M4 near Newport, above the Coldra roundabout. Since an accident there in July last year, speeds have been restricted to 50 mph because the hard-shoulder is out of action.
The speed restriction ends at the end of the roadworks, but the people who operate the speed cameras got confused and took pictures of drivers doing more than 50mph after the roadworks had ended.
Some drivers have already started to challenge their penalties and fines and have been successful. Newport Magistrates have confirmed that ten challenges have been successful in the last two weeks alone.
But the company is refusing to issue an amnesty to all the motorists affected. They insist each one must make individual claim.
The National Assembly which acts as the Highways Authority has admitted that there has been a problem.
But unless the Safety Camera Partnership has a change of heart, motorists could be facing a long process to get their money - and clean licences - back.
http://www.htvwales.com/htvwales-cgi/news/show?id=24
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cheers guys for finding this i live about 2mins off this junction and am a coach driver, im sure one of my mates got caught doing 56mph and was told it was in the 50mph section but he insisted to the boss that he wasnt speeding but he wouldnt listen i will have plesure in sticking this under my EX-boss,s nose,
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