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26/06/2009
Up to 25,000 motorists will be refunded fines totalling almost £1.5 million, after a speed camera was found to be illegal.
And drivers who were hit with penalty points after speeding past the camera, on the A35 in Chideock, Dorset, are to have them removed.
The camera was set up in 1997 to police a 30mph zone, but street names were mixed up in the paperwork specifying its exact location.
As a result, the camera operated illegally until 2007, when the mistake was noticed by the judge presiding over a speeding appeal.
Announcing that motorists could apply to have their fixed penalty notice refunded and their points removed, the Dorset Safety Camera Partnership said that it remained focused on reducing speeding-related deaths and injuries in the county.
Stressing that the speed limit was still being enforced on the road, Dorset Police assistant chief constable Adrian Whiting said: "During the period this safety camera has been in operation it will have reduced drivers' speeds through the village by acting as a deterrent."
Despite the blunder coming to light in 2007, officials took two years to decide that it affected all the camera's convictions.
Lorry driver Alan Dawe - whose appeal led to the mistake being uncovered - told the Daily Mail: "They just didn't want to admit they had got it wrong."
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