Friday, June 19, 2015

Speed ​​cameras without revisions, the fines are to be canceled – BBC



Milan , June 19, 2015 – 10:30

     
     
 

The equipment for the assessment of speed limits, such as speed cameras, ranging undergo periodic inspections. Word of the Constitutional Court that he “flunked” a provision of the new rules of the road. A decision which now, according to the Consumers’ Association, paves the way for compensation for citizens.
A lift the question of constitutionality was the Supreme Court, which in judging the appeal of a citizen came to the Supreme Court, It decided to refer the case to the Constitutional Court. Thursday the filing of the ruling, written by Judge Aldo Carosi

In the focus Article 45 of the new Highway Code in so far as it does not provide all the equipment for the assessment of speed limits , such as speed cameras, in fact, are regularly tested for functionality and calibration. And according to the Court, as it is this rule it should not be: does not meet the requirements of reasonableness. Because “the obsolescence and deterioration – reads the judgment – can affect not only the reliability of the equipment, but also the public trust that you have placed in an area of ​​significant social importance, such as that of road safety.”

“It is clear – the Court adds – that any measuring instrument, especially if e , is subject to changes in its characteristics and then to changes in measured values ​​due to aging of its components and to events such as shock, vibration, mechanical shock and thermal variations in the supply voltage. ” So “the exemption from periodic checks, or subsequent to maintenance events, appears inherently unreasonable.”

A decision according Adusbef and Federconsumatori “restore legality violated by local authorities accustomed to contract with third parties ambushes with cameras and other instruments of speed detection, in exchange for a percentage of revenue. ” Local authorities, also for consumers, they acted often as in the far west. And now, say Elio Lannutti of Rosario Trefiletti Adusbef and Federconsumatori, “opens the way for compensation for millions of fines delivered with technical tools of questionable functionality.”

June 19, 2015 | 10:30

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