Speeding fine calibration certificate?

flopsy1973

Hi
Got caught speeding on 17 Sep and asked for evidence as I can't remember being flashed. Not sure if reading the calibration certificate right but the inspection is in date but the calibration has expired. See below for cert

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What you need to do is show that the device is now over reading by sufficient margin that you were travelling below the speed limit when it erroneously recorded your speed at the stated value.

It won't be, as even if it is out of calibration, it won't have drifted that far and can still prove that you were speeding.

In all likelihood, if your defence is that the device recorded you as speeding when you were travelling below the limit, the prosecution will bring one of their expensive experts to Court to testify that this could not possibly be the case, and your defence would fail, adding a small fortune to your costs.

Unfortunately, there is no directive that a device cannot be used as evidence of speeding once the site calibration expires (which would be a nice "get out of jail free" card....)

Keep_pedalling

It says valid until 18th Jan 2026. 

The reason you weren’t flashed is that speed camera uses infra-red and can catch you traveling in both directions.

RandomTourist

Fixed penalty (assuming you were going fast enough) £100, 3 points, all sorted.

Go to court: whole day spent in court, 3 points still, fine bigger plus victim surcharge, costs for an expert witness £600, as you'll still be convicted.

Choose.....

ThorOdinson

It's impossible to challenge these things. The cameras can have all sorts of faults, the mobile ones get banged about and set up wrong... But you can't get the camera to test it, you can't prove anything. 

The only real defence is to have a camera recording your speedo, and ideally with a GPS recording speed as well.