Madrid driver let off fine due to failure to service speed cameras

A MADRID court has let off a driver from paying a €300 fine and losing two points from his licence for speeding due to a failure to regularly service the speed camera which caught him out.

A General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) Pegasus helicopter speed camera clocked the diver doing 138km/h on a section of the M-607 on which the maximum speed limit is 100km/h in the summer of 2018.

But the court annulled the penalty and ordered the DGT to pay the legal costs of up to €200 after finding there was a lack of certification that the helicopter speed camera had undergone the obligatory periodic checks which demonstrated that the images capture had not been altered or caught mistakenly.

The ruling points out that speed cameras and their boxes in which they are located should be serviced every six years or their use is banned.