{"id":1708,"date":"2010-10-16T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:14:04","slug":"illegal-car-plates-were-invisible-to-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/10\/illegal-car-plates-were-invisible-to-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal car plates were invisible to cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1709\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ma2343-incorrect.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1709\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1709\" title=\"ma2343 - incorrect\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ma2343-incorrect-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ma2343-incorrect-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ma2343-incorrect.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incorrect Display of MAZ 343<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1710\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/maz343-correct.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1710\" title=\"maz343 correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/maz343-correct-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/maz343-correct-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/maz343-correct.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Correct Display of MAZ 343<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A MOTORIST has been convicted of having illegal number plates \u2014 which speed cameras cannot pick up. John Massaro, who had the illegal plates on his Jaguar car, told Bolton Magistrates Court he did not realise he was breaking the law. The 55-year-old father was stopped on Wearish Lane in Westhoughton by a traffic police officer and issued with a \u00a360 fixed penalty notice.<\/p>\n<p>But Massaro, of Captain Lees Road, Westhoughton decided to contest the fine and was due to stand trial at Bolton magistrates court yesterday. He changed his plea to guilty as the trial was about to start, but complained to magistrates he should have been given a warning by the officer instead of the notice and given time to replace the illegal plates.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Anderton, prosecuting, told the court when Massaro was stopped on March 24 his personalised number plates, MA Z343 purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\">Speedyreg<\/a>, which he had only put on the vehicle six weeks earlier, were found to have illegal raised lettering meaning speed cameras would be unable to identify the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThese are the carbon graphite type of plates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difficulty is if someone is driving at night and a camera goes off, they are difficult to read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mussaro told the court he had not realised the plates were illegal when he bought them and was not given an opportunity rectify the problem when the traffic officer stopped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a son doing a turn in Afghanistan at the time. My son\u2019s out there and I am being treated like this for something so trivial,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrates fined him \u00a335 and ordered him to pay \u00a335 towards prosecution costs and a \u00a315 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how to display number plates correctly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MOTORIST has been convicted of having illegal number plates \u2014 which speed cameras cannot pick up. John Massaro, who had the illegal plates on his Jaguar car, told Bolton Magistrates Court he did not realise he was breaking the law. The 55-year-old father was stopped on Wearish Lane in Westhoughton by a traffic police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}