📸 Got a speed camera fine on the ORR and the photo is useless

Got a message last week saying I crossed the speed limit on the Outer Ring Road. I drive that stretch often and I was sure I was well under. I even remember looking at my meter. I got a fine on the same stretch a few months back, so now I'm careful there. I read later that they put up some new cameras on that section not long ago. The notice has a time and a photo, which is more than I got from older fines. Good. But the photo is so grainy that I can't read anything off it. I can barely see my own car. So I just have to trust the number they gave me. There's no way to check it myself. It's a bit like being told the answer and asked to believe it. I paid it anyway. The amount wasn't big enough to run around offices for. But it bothers me. A few people in a driving group I'm in say they got fines that looked odd too. Nobody has found out if the cameras were set up properly or if it's just early days for them. I also read in the news that more cameras are coming on other parts of the ORR. I wonder if anyone has challenged one of these. Did it go anywhere, or did you give up? My cousin says never bother for a small amount, just pay and move on. I'm not so sure now. Next time I might ask a friend to sit in the car and film the meter. Probably overkill, but I'd like some proof of my own the next time it happens.

I'd keep the notice and take a screenshot of the photo now, before the link disappears.

A friend in my driving group got a fine from a different camera on the same road in the same week. His photo was too dark to read anything from. So I don't think it's just you. If 5 or 6 of us compare dates and times, we might see a pattern. Maybe share the date and time of yours here, if you're comfortable with it, and I'll do the same.

You had an old fine there already, so you were careful. That makes me trust your story more. You were already watching your meter. A person like that isn't the one racing past at full speed. If you ever do decide to challenge it, I'd mention that detail. It shows you had a reason to be careful. I've never contested one myself, so take that as opinion and not advice.

I contested a similar camera fine on a different road a couple of years ago, and it was overturned.

What worries me is the other cameras you mentioned. If this batch is faulty, more of them means more wrong fines.

A man at my brother's workshop told me new cameras need a few days to settle down after they go up.

I paid mine too. Most people do, because chasing a small fine costs a day off work. Which means a wrong fine rarely gets noticed by anybody on their side. If nobody pushes back, why would they check? I don't have the patience either, so I'm part of the problem. I just wanted to say that out loud. Maybe the only fix is for a lot of people to complain at the same time.

I got a blurry one last year from a different camera and had the same problem.