More than 900 speeding fines and penalty points received by motorists from a fixed speed camera in Co Kilkenny have been cancelled due to “human error” in processing the alleged offences, An Garda Síochána has said.

The Garda said it has begun writing to motorists to inform them fines and penalty points issued for speeding offences on the N25 in Kilkenny that had been detected by the static speed safety camera system between 30 May and 30 June are being revoked, says the Irish Times.

A total of 914 speeding fixed charge notices were issued over this period. Of the total, 128 notices were paid and penalty points were applied.

Fifty-six were paid but the error was identified before penalty points were applied. No payment had been received in the remaining 730 notices and no penalty points had been applied.

A Garda statement said the service had confirmed an error with the “offence location on fixed charge notices” from the static safety camera located on the N2 in Co Kilkenny.

“This error is a result of human error when inputting the offence location onto the processing system,” 

The error was “rectified immediately upon its discovery” and the camera resumed operations, with detections from July 4th “being valid”.

“An Garda Síochána takes full responsibility for this error and has completed a review of all offence locations associated with Static and Average Safety Cameras,” said the Garda statement. “This error only affected the static camera on the N25.”

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