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The Speed Ticket That Cost His Family A Fortune

 
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 2:32 pm    Post subject: The Speed Ticket That Cost His Family A Fortune Reply with quote

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A man has spent £30,000 fighting a speed ticket. He did this despite his comment that he was "pretty certain", as opposed to "certain", that he was innocent.

The fine dates back to a Christmas shopping trip in 2016 when, according to the courts, he was caught driving at 36mph in a 30mph zone.

Worcester man, 71-year-old Richard Keedwell, then acted on information from a friend of a friend - an RAF man who had experience with radar cameras in the 1960s. After seeing the photo evidence, he told Mr. Keedwell that a double doppler effect may have happened where a radar beam bounces off one object onto another.

That was all the aggrieved man needed to spring into action. He wasn't going to roll over on the £100 fine.

He said: "There was a Volkswagen Golf in the middle lane of New Road while I was on the right. If some of the beam bounces off that car onto mine, it causes a distorted camera reading."

After four visits to Worcester Magistrates' Court and a subsequent appeal, he lost. The judge asked: "Why is my time being wasted with this?"

In what I believe to contain a certain level of understatement, Mr. Keedwell said: "My wife has a degree of frustration."

His 37 and 42 year old children still live at home as they can't afford their own houses - his eldest asked him: "Why do you bloody bother?"
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does this thread not deserve a title Rob?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did see this yesterday and I tried to add a title to save Rob's blushes, but I got the message "The html tags you attempted to use are not allowed". The post has html in it for position of the image and non-staff are not allowed to post html tags.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aha, I know what the problem was - the £ symbol that I used in the title. The forum post accepted the title without the £, but the front page wasn't playing ball at all Confused

Thanks for the heads up, now fixed!
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