One defendant, Will Foreman, owner of Eastover Auto, used the method to estimate vehicles speeds and show they were not consistent with the speeds shown on the citations. Foreman's business maintains a small fleet of vehicles, which regularly travel in Forest Heights, and as the registered owner tickets are issued to him. Some other defendants were also successful using the same method, however some defendants who relied on "gut feeling" about their speeds were still found guilty. Optotraffic continued to claim their cameras are accurate :“No one has come to us with a proven error,” company spokesman Mickey Shepherd said Tuesday. (note that Forest Heights denied a Maryland Public Information Act request for records pertaining to camera errors from StopBigBrotherMD, and also denied similar requests from several ticket recipients who required the information for their legal defense.)
Read the full article in the Washington Times hereAdditional Coverage:
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Mr Foreman has also created a HOWTO VIDEO on Youtube showing how drivers who believe they have gotten tickets in error can use this technique to demonstrate the error using citation images:
We encourage anyone who discovers such errors to challenge them in court, and also to report the errors to state officials, the media, or to StopBigBrotherMD.org. If you receive a ticket in error you are NOT "being a good citizen" by just paying the fine. Remaining silent only encourages negligence on the part of officials running these camera programs.
Related Stories:
- Optotraffic "Investigating" Camera Errors in Brentwood and other towns involving buses, large vehicles (Washington Examiner)
- Driver Says RV Towing Car Was Ticketed By Forest Heights for impossible speed(TBD)
- Cheverly Residents Confronted Council about Camera Accuracy(StopBigBrotherMD)
- Riverdale Park Police Chief Said Town's Cameras Issued Erroneous Tickets(StopBigBrotherMD)
