Automated speed device gets it wrong, mistakenly issues citations - Rio Rancho Observer

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Hundreds of speeding tickets are being canceled aft the incorrect velocity bounds was programmed into 1 of the city’s Automated Speed Enforcement Devices.

Rebecca Atkins, an Albuquerque Police Department spokeswoman, said Monday that the metropolis learned precocious that immoderate drivers were issued citations based connected inaccurate velocity bounds violations. She said that an incorrect velocity bounds was programmed into 1 of the city’s devices, though she did not supply the camera’s location.

A full of 378 speeding were tickets issued due to the fact that of that device. Those tickets person since been voided, Atkins said successful an email.

She said NovoaGlobal, the institution that produces and installs the devices passim the city, told constabulary astir the mishap. The institution unopen down the instrumentality and sent letters to drivers advising them that they did not person to wage the speeding tickets.

The metropolis pays NovoaGlobal $7,900 per system, per month.

The devices are located passim the metropolis successful places wherever drivers are prone to speed. Speeders caught done the devices are fixed a $100 ticket, according to the city’s website.

Based connected automated devices, the metropolis of Albuquerque issued 4,560 citations successful October, 3,659 successful September and 5,823 successful August, according to the city’s website.