Speedsters have tickets refunded after road given wrong name

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If you are ever flashed by a Gatso camera as you motor along above the speed limit, it pays to have a good hard look at the speeding ticket when it eventually arrives. if today's news about mass refunds is anything to go by.

Because down in sleepy old Devon, one camera that has been merrily clicking away since 1997, catching 24,259 speedsters in the 10 years to 2007 has just cost the police £1.5million in refunded fines after its location was mistakenly recorded on paperwork.

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