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Australia, France, Poland, UK: Speed Camera Accuracy Concerns Grow
Speed cameras falsely accuse drivers on the island of Guadeloupe and in Poland while courts toss bogus tickets in Australia and the UK.

A court in Melbourne, Australia has thrown out a speed camera citation over accuracy concerns, the Herald Sun reported. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad-application/magistrate-dismisses-melbourne-red-light-fine/story-fn6bfkm6-1225931330022 Broadmeadows Magistrates' Court last month dismissed the case against Robert Levasseur after he was able to show the same time codes were printed on a series of sequential camera photos. Despite the obvious error, officials insisted there is nothing wrong with the camera and it will continue to issue citations.

In West Dorset, England a motorist has succeeded in identifying a flaw in one of the country's most notorious speed cameras. Paul Snowball found that the automated ticketing machine on the A35 at Chideock relies upon improperly spaced pavement markings as a secondary accuracy check. Officials claim that they use lines painted five feet apart on the pavement to conduct a crude time-distance calculation to verify that the radar speed reading is correct. The lines on the pavement at this location, however, were 4 foot 6 inches or 4 foot 8 inches apart. Snowball's case was dismissed, the Dorset Echo reported.  http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/8440811.Chideock_speed_row__Camera_case_thrown_out/

In Silesia, Poland, motorist Wieslaw Rekowski was mailed a 150 zloty (US $53) fine for allegedly speeding in a Jeep. Rekowski, however, owns a Volkswagen Golf and never goes to the area in which he was accused of driving 72 km/h (45 MPH) in a 50 km/h (31 MPH) zone. Officials blamed the false charge on a "rare mistake," Super Express reported.  http://www.se.pl/wydarzenia/kraj/fotoradary-oszukuja_156050.html

A woman whose car was registered in Guadeloupe, an archipelago in the Lesser Antilles, was accused by a camera of speeding in Paris, France -- 4,200 miles away. Police have rejected all attempts to resolve the bogus ticket and insist full payment must be made, DOMActu reported.  http://www.domactu.com/actualite/109289493122288/guadeloupe-flashee-pour-exces-de-vitesse-a-8000-kms-de-chez-elle/

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