Police cancel one in ten speeding fines each year

File photo dated 10/06/2015 of a speed camera in operation, as an average speed camera pilot scheme has slashed offences and seen more than 500 speeding tickets a month clocked up at one hotspot.
File photo dated 10/06/2015 of a speed camera in operation, as an average speed camera pilot scheme has slashed offences and seen more than 500 speeding tickets a month clocked up at one hotspot.

Police errors, camera problems and admin delays are all to blame for nearly 250,000 speeding fines being dropped each year.

On average this amounts to one-in-ten speeding fines being cancelled, but in some areas this is as much as one in four.

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