Can a Chinese-made Geely car cover 4,6km in just 19 seconds - at 871km/h? Yes say the Joburg metro police, this is quite possible.
For, on April 26, they caught Midrand motorist Francisca Al-Halaseh on two cameras.
One was near the Canada Road Bridge on the N12 South and the second, 4.6km later, at the Randshow Road Bridge on the N12 South. But despite the cameras being 4.6km apart, the time difference between the two clips is a mere 19 seconds.
This means Al-Halaseh, who was driving the Geely, should have been driving 871km/h and not the 102km in an 80km zone that she was caught at.
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No way, says Al-Halaseh, a secretary at Business Connexion in Midrand, who is disputing the fines.
"There is no indication of cameras there. I did not expect this. I have never ever had a fine in my life," she told the Saturday Star on Friday.
But when Al-Halaseh queried the fines, Chris Olivier, general manager of metro enforcement at TMT Services and Supplies, the company which operates the speed trap machines, told her that due to the number of cameras in operation at one time, it was not possible to synchronise them. He also said it was not a legal requirement to do so
There are about 100 cameras in operation at any given time, he added.
But by Olivier's own admission to Al-Halaseh, it is impossible for the short time to have lapsed.
Al-Halaseh had noticed the discrepancy and approached a website called Greedfines to help her take the matter further.
Set up by Howard Dembovsky and Dennis Jackson, Greedfines warns motorists about fraudulent traffic fines that are issued and explains how to dispute them.
The site is one of the resources of the Justice Project South Africa - and in addition to warning motorists of the possible fraudulent nature of their fines, it also assists them by offering to look at the fines to find discrepancies.
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