A woman was caught speeding twice in less than three-and-a-half minutes by the same police camera and bought a McDonald's takeaway in between.
Gill Whitmore from Hendon, Sunderland will contest the tickets claiming it could not be done in the time frame.
The single mother was caught on 22 August on Ryhope Road, travelling at 38mph in a 30 zone in both directions just three minutes 23 seconds apart.
She says she has kept the food receipts and the camera must be wrong.
The school kitchen assistant already has six points on her licence and faces a ban if she loses her case.
'Egg McMuffin'
She said: "It is just impossible that I could have driven that distance and been to McDonald's in that amount of time.
"I nipped out to get some food for my kids and then I decided to get a sausage and egg McMuffin from McDonald's.
"Then a week later I got a letter with two speeding fines."
She believes the mobile camera may have been faulty and will challenge the case.
Her case has been backed by Neil Herron, the Metric Martyrs campaigner, who also fights against wrongly issued parking tickets.
Together with a colleague he tested the route with GPS technology and has claimed the quickest time they could cover the route was five minutes 48 seconds in daytime traffic.
He said: "I suppose it's not impossible to do it in three-and-a-half minutes, if you cut across the grass verge, speed through the Drive Thru, throw your exact money to the member of staff, then catch your food in a baseball glove before driving off again."
Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said Northumbria Police stood by its technology, and there was no fault with the camera.
The device measured the speed of the car by laser, it was viewed by an officer and the whole operation was videoed.
Mr Forsberg said: "Obviously she is completely within her rights to take the matter to court; however, we stand 100% behind the accuracy of this equipment."
I hope she's got proof that it's her receipt from MacDonald's, and not one that she got off a mate - for example.
And that she's got proof that the McDonalds tills were telling the right time.
And that she's seen the videos.
And that she realises a double-sausage-and-egg is better than a single one.
__________________ "I won't come on tv and speak or write about anything and say words only half the people listening understand. In our language there's a similarity, words that are spelt differently but mean the same thing. Words that mean the same thing and the big men use these words, knowing full well that maybe only 10% of the people listening will understand. Well we don't. We speak the language that everybody understands. Instead of me saying somebody was avaricious, I'd say he was bloody greedy."
She was speeding, im guessing the 6 points she has already accrued are from speeding.
He said: "I suppose it's not impossible to do it in three-and-a-half minutes, if you cut across the grass verge, speed through the Drive Thru, throw your exact money to the member of staff, then catch your food in a baseball glove before driving off again."
I wish they did the breakfasts all day instead of the shit they churn out after 10.30am.
__________________ "I won't come on tv and speak or write about anything and say words only half the people listening understand. In our language there's a similarity, words that are spelt differently but mean the same thing. Words that mean the same thing and the big men use these words, knowing full well that maybe only 10% of the people listening will understand. Well we don't. We speak the language that everybody understands. Instead of me saying somebody was avaricious, I'd say he was bloody greedy."
I hope it was a hidden speed camera for her sake. How thick must you be to drive through those bright yellow stationery ones (road markings and all) twice within 5 minutes of other. With 6 points on your license already.
More to the point, how bored are Tyne and Wear police?
In Nottingham it takes about 6 weeks for a speeding ticket to come through, as the police are presumably too busy enforcing bus lane driving, or putting parking tickets on people for having the temerity for parking in the proximity of Nottinghamshire.
1 week for a ticket? Must be some sort of record surely?
More to the point, how bored are Tyne and Wear police?
In Nottingham it takes about 6 weeks for a speeding ticket to come through, as the police are presumably too busy enforcing bus lane driving, or putting parking tickets on people for having the temerity for parking in the proximity of Nottinghamshire.
1 week for a ticket? Must be some sort of record surely?
I think in North Wales they hand deliver them within the hour.
__________________ "I won't come on tv and speak or write about anything and say words only half the people listening understand. In our language there's a similarity, words that are spelt differently but mean the same thing. Words that mean the same thing and the big men use these words, knowing full well that maybe only 10% of the people listening will understand. Well we don't. We speak the language that everybody understands. Instead of me saying somebody was avaricious, I'd say he was bloody greedy."
I hope it was a hidden speed camera for her sake. How thick must you be to drive through those bright yellow stationery ones (road markings and all) twice within 5 minutes of other. With 6 points on your license already.
You answered your own question: Pretty fucking thick.
