PHOTOSHOPPED — Speed camera error costs city $120,000

Wednesday, June 6th 2012 @ 5:10 PM

 

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Over 3,000 speed camera tickets were declared null and void this week in Baltimore because of a mistake in the camera's location.

MISTAKEN LOCATION  NECESSITATES
DECLARING TICKETS NULL AND VOID

OVER 3,000 CITATIONS ERRONEOUSLY ISSUED
 
Problems with speed cameras continue to cost Baltimore taxpayers money, as a mistaken location caused the city this week to have to nullify more than 3,000 $40 tickets at a potential cost to taxpayers of over $120,000 in uncollectible fines.

The story was reported Tuesday by WBFF-Fox45-TV  (click here)  which previously reported the nullification of over 1,000 speed camera fines in March caused by cameras configured to issue tickets for the wrong speed limit  (click here).

The 3,000 citations declared null and void this week were issued to motorists for speeding along Wabash Avenue near Rogers Avenue in West Baltimore who were in fact caught by a speed camera along a different block of Wabash near Ridgewood Road, thereby requiring nullification of the charges.
 
CHECK OUT THE TWO STORIES ON WBFF-FOX45-TV BY CLICKING  HERE  AND  HERE.
 
— VoB Staff report
 

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