Motorists have been given incorrect fines after a speed camera in the UK was found to be operating with a glitch.
The camera in Southampton has racked up tens of thousands of speeding tickets over two years, with its minimum fine being £100.
The success rate earned it the title of the UK's most prolific speed camera.
The camera monitors a 30mph road, about which AA president Edmund King previously said : "A 30mph road generating the highest number of speed camera activations in England and Wales is astonishing."
This particular speed camera, on Maybray King Way, is responsible for £5million of fines in just one year, and it the busiest speed camera in the UK.
At its peak between 2015-2017, the A3024 camera issued a staggering 51,049 fines.
This raises questions about the fines that may have already been incorrectly paid.
Two motorists have been compensated for being wrongly fined, but there are concerns that these may not be the only cases.
One of the people who were discovered to have be incorrectly prosecuted, Nathan Thompson, expressed that he may have been taken to court as he could not prove he was doing 25mph.
Harley Golder who was also fined could have received six points on his license had the fine not been revoked.
A spokesperson from Hampshire Constabulary said in a statement: "To clarify, the camera doesn’t have a fault, it’s working as per its design and is Home Office approved.
"It’s simply the nature of the technology in that the signal, when it’s sent and returned, can give a misread."
These misreads could have however cost many people hundreds of pounds.
The spokesperson goes on to say: "We have strict processes in place to validate and verify the images that are supplied to us by the camera to ensure the reading is legitimate before pursuing a prosecution, and to ensure there are no incorrect prosecutions."
In relation to the two proven cases of a misread, the spokesperson said: "On these two occasions identified, tickets were given out incorrectly and were rightly challenged, and as a result the prosecutions were withdrawn."
These errors could potentially cost drivers points on their license, which can have knock on effects such as losing jobs.
Whilst Hampshire Constabulary have said that the camera "doesn't have a fault", it does nonetheless "misread" the speed in which a car is travelling.
