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Dash Cams and Speeding

Streeton Lawyers recently had a speeding matter dismissed that relied on dash cam evidence to prove speeding. Dash Cam’s are becoming increasingly popular and have proven to be an extremely...

Janelle Tarabay

Streeton Lawyers recently had a speeding matter dismissed that relied on dash cam evidence to prove speeding.

Dash Cam’s are becoming increasingly popular and have proven to be an extremely useful tool in keeping our roads safe.  The footage is frequently being used by the media to report on traffic incidents and by authorities as evidence of how incidents have occurred. For example, the ABC recently reported on an incident where two motorcyclists were knocked from their bikes by a car, which had been captured on a Dash Cam.

However, there are limits to how far Dash Cam’s go in terms of being used as “evidence” of an incident or an offence. This was recently highlighted in one of Zoe’s matters.

Our client had been caught on a civilian’s dash cam as he passed their vehicle on his motorbike. The civilian then took the camera off their dashboard and filmed their speedometer in an attempt to prove our client was speeding.

The civilian then took the footage into Police, and accordingly our client was issued with a speeding infringement which would have resulted in the suspension of his licence.

After lengthy negotiations with Police, Zoe was able to get our client’s speeding infringement withdrawn on the basis that although the Dash Cam footage showed our client passing the civilian’s vehicle, there was no way to prove beyond reasonable doubt that our client was exceeding the speed limit.

Our client was extremely happy with this result as he is no longer facing a licence suspension and he is not required to pay the hefty speeding fine.

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