Magistrates were stunned when a scientist charged with speeding at 42mph told them: “No I wasn’t . . . I was only doing 29.177196mph.”Dr Phillip Tann’s lawyer then produced data from a revolutionary device he was testing – showing the exact time, location and speed of his car. Instead of being 12mph over the limit when his Mercedes was zapped by a mobile speed camera, he was actually less than 0.8mph UNDER. The case has now been dropped.
Dr Tann plans to talk to police chiefs about how his invention – built into a mobile phone – could help stop speeders.
The scientist, 45, who runs his own technology firm,Tann Autopoietic Systems, was stunned to get a letter accusing him of speeding in Sunderland because he had seen the police trap.
He checked data on the device and found cops were wrong. His lawyer gave the city’s JPs a CD of his recordings. Dr Tann said yesterday: “They looked flabbergasted. Police cameras are not 100 per cent accurate but my system is.”
He is to release a similar product in December for parents who want to know the location of their child.
No comments:
Post a Comment