Driver beats speed fine by proving old runabout can't go that fast, Another Devon & Cornwall Bumpkins fiasco Options

[mudmover]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already, or has there been a similar case? The incident apparantly dates from Dec 2007, a year to obtain a court resolution is about right. I wonder if RSS were involved in this waste of taxpayers money
Funnily enough there is no mention of this case on the D&C bumpkins website news: D&C propaganda

Daily Mirror

Motorist Dale Lyle was driven mad when he was told speed cameras caught him doing 98mph - and spent a year and £1,200 proving his innocence.

Dale, 21, even bought back the Honda Civic after selling it on - then paid an independent driving expert to take it on a two-mile test circuit at top speed.

And today he is celebrating victory after proving his old banger could not go that fast. The results showed that even driven flat-out the 1.3 litre runabout Honda could only do 85.4mph in fourth gear and 81.3mph in fifth gear.

Finance worker Dale - who has a clean licence - said yesterday: "It's ridiculous the lengths I've had to go to prove I was innocent. The whole thing has been a shambles, a waste of money........................

This post has been edited by mudmover: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 - 13:04