Property News · May 8, 2016

Toll and trouble: Dartford cameras fine drivers for journeys they didn’t make


Dartford Crossing’s number plate recognition cameras repeatedly identify the wrong vehicles, resulting in hefty penaltiesRoger Bundy was surprised when he got a penalty charge notice for £70 for failing to pay the toll on the Dartford Crossing in east London. Not least because he had not used either the bridge or the tunnel that carry the M25 across the Thames Estuary, linking Kent to Essex.Bundy, from Blandford Forum in Dorset, was the victim of a licence plate misreading by the automated camera system which incorrectly fined his blue Nissan Navara instead of the white van that had gone through the toll in May 2015. Almost a year later he is being threatened with legal action to recover a debt he doesn’t owe, for a journey he never made. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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