There has been another judicial set back for the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT); this time because they did not apply a margin of error to their speed cameras.

According to the Automovilistas Europeos Asociados (AEA), in five court cases the magistrates have decided in favour of an appeal made by the legal services of the AEA precisely because Trafico had not applied correctly a margin of error to their radar, speed traps.

In each of the cases presented before appeals courts in Madrid (3), Vigo (1) and Valencia (1), the DGT had issued a fine for 300 euros with the loss of two points off the offender’s licence. However, the magistrates considered that the maximum fine should have been 100 euros with no point loss had a margin of error been calculated.

This margin of error is calculated at five kilometres an hour on static speed traps, or 5% in speeds over 100 kph. In the case of mobile radars, the margin of error should be seven kilometres per hour or 7% in speeds over 100 kph. The margin is greater when it’s the Pegasus, airborne speed cameras, which should apply a 10% error margin.

(News: Spain)