A PENSIONER couldn't believe his eyes when he got a speeding ticket - it
said he had been clocked at 800mph!
Adalat Khan, 73, was told he had been captured by a camera apparently going
at more than the speed of sound.
The letter even said there was both photographic and video evidence. Mr.
Khan was driving his S-registered 3.4 litre Toyota Land Cruiser when the
speed cameras snapped him on the 30mph A57 Hyde Road in Ardwick, close to
the Apollo.
He said: "I would have needed a jet engine to have been traveling at 800
miles an hour.
"I later saw the funny side of it, and a lot of my friends just laughed out
loud when I told them how fast I was supposed to have been going."
Mr. Khan, a newsagent from Openshaw, added: "I was very worried when I
opened the letter from the police. I knew I had been driving on the road in
question at the time they said, but I knew I hadn't been speeding."
Mistake
When he appealed, Greater Manchester Police immediately realised their
mistake and cancelled the ticket - they said it was an inputting error.
A spokeswoman for GMP said the Central Ticket Office had looked into the
case and found the speed on the ticket was not correct.
She said the information on the ticket was inputted manually, and the
mistake was down to human error.
She added: "This was an isolated incident. The ticket has been cancelled and
we would like to apologise for any inconvenience that this has caused."
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