£50 million is due to be repaid to Essex motorists who have been caught speeding on the A127 over the last 4 years. Essex police allowed the fines to be issued by someone who didn’t have the authority to do so.
As it was a police error this means that those that attended speed awareness training, will also be entitled to compensation for loss of earnings for when they had to attend the course, as well as the cost of the course refunded. Other speeding fines and points could be refunded / rescinded.
This has a tremendous impact on those who have lost a job due to the points on their licence, legal action could be taken again for their loss of employment and again more compensation claims.
Given that it’s a police error, the estimated £50 million repayment will come from the police budget, so your compensation payout will be counter balanced by a sharp rise in council tax.
Like most drivers, we are just sitting back and waiting for the rest of the news relating to this.
Sarah
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#1 by Allan on June 29, 2009 - 11:15 am
Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We have had many couriers in that area over the last 4 years so we will be looking to see if this awful mistake affects any of them.
What makes it worse is the poor old council tax payer has got to fork out again for some elses incompetence.
#2 by sarah on July 1, 2009 - 7:39 am
Hi Allan
Yes, it’s the council tax payers again who have to pay
All the money on public service spending, you would think they would get it right
Kevin