Taxi Driver Online

Nearly 5,600 motorists who were caught by a pair of speed cameras have had their fines returned and penalty points removed from their licences because a speed limit sign was installed in the wrong place.

The London Safety Camera Partnership has been forced to hand back £335,880 to drivers caught exceeding the 20mph speed limit on a 250-yard stretch of Upper Thames Street, near the Tower of London.

The cameras have also been switched off until the sign is moved. Police officers will enforce the speed limit until then.

The cameras are one of 20 "time/distance" systems in use in Britain, which calculate the speed of a vehicle over a length of road. Conventional speed cameras are triggered by a car exceeding the limit as it passes a fixed point.

Although the cameras were correctly installed at the start and end of the controlled zone, the sign warning of the reduced limit was 40 yards inside the 20mph stretch. As a result, motorists were entitled to believe the speed limit was 30mph. The error was discovered by a taxi driver, who successfully challenged his fine.

A London Safety Camera Partnership spokesman said that it had quashed the remainder as a "gesture of goodwill". He said the partnership "held its hands up to the mistake".

Paul Watters, the AA Motoring Trust's head of roads policy, said: "The impact of having endorsements on your licence can extend to higher insurance premiums.

"Drivers may feel they are entitled to seek compensation for any additional expense they have incurred."

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IDFIMH

http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_96/pg01.htm

And well done to them.

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IDFIMH

GBC. What has that got to do with the Speed camera article?

Oooops! I was reading your NEW signature...

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Make trafic wardens redundant. PARK LEGALLY.
Congestion charge! Before it was free.

Hi everybody, new to the forum just thought I would let you know that I am the cab driver that found it good result wouldnt have minded 10% of the refund money tough Appeared on London Tonight, they say we all get 15 mins of fame! Have written to the camera partnership without a reply as yet, will let you know.

Yes well done Mr L, although Bob Oddy seems to have 'nicked' most of the credits on this one!

Yep very true, maximum mileage for him, LTDA added their own spin, didnt want to know to begin with, "we've checked it and its ok, send off your cheque" then the London Tonight article and their ears pricked up! Taxi newspaper article had more spin than Sterling Moss! although the pictures did show my good side

What the LTDA mag spun it out.

And the pen pushers tried to big themselves up.

Whatever next.

Ollie

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Happy to be legit.

I can tell you what won't be next.

You ever having possesion of a membership card for the above.

Poor old two bobs.

Notice a minicabber never spotted it and I bet more of those benefitted from my find than LTDA members! Everything has a downside I suppose
10% of all refunds to The Albany Taxi Fund for Underpriveidged Children please

David .L.

You mean the few Minicab drivers that hold UK Driving Licenses?

Anyway, what a suggestion, Minicab drivers driving like t***s? Surely not?