Saturday, February 8, 2025

Driver escaped speeding ticket – had the wrong hair

In the district court, a truck driver has been acquitted of driving 7 km/h too fast because the speed trap image of him did not match a receding hairline.

A driver has been acquitted of a speeding ticket in the district court. The acquittal was due to an unusual detail: the man's hairline.

The case started over a year ago when a speed camera outside Växjö in Sweden recorded a truck driving seven kilometers over the permitted speed limit of 70 km/h.

The owner of the truck received a ticket but refused to pay, claiming that he was not the one driving the truck at the time of the recorded speeding offence.

This is what Smålandsposten writes.

The case ended up in the district court, where the man presented an unexpected argument. He pointed out that the person in the speed camera photo had a different hairline than himself.

The district court chose to examine this claim in more detail.

After comparing the image from the speed camera with the man's appearance, the court concluded that it could not be ruled out that another person had stolen the truck.

The court placed emphasis on the difference in hairline between the man in the photo and the defendant. This difference was sufficient to create reasonable doubt about the man's guilt.

Therefore, the man was acquitted of the speeding offense. He thus does not have to pay the issued fine. The case shows that even small details can be important in a court case.

In this case, it was the man's hairline that ultimately led to his acquittal. But this is actually not the first time that a distinctive piece of evidence has exonerated a driver.

In fact, a faulty cruise control in a Volkswagen ID.4 plays a role in a case from the same Swedish city. In Växjö, a woman was acquitted last year of a fatal accident in an electric Volkswagen when the court found it proven that the cruise control in her car was to blame. Read more about it here .

This summer, Boosted was also able to report that a 20-year-old driver was acquitted of speeding in a very expensive Audi. The case fell through when it reached the high court, where the judge did not believe the police's alleged speed measurement.

– I was put in the back seat of the police car while my two friends were searched and the car was searched. The officers claimed that I was driving at 150 km/h. But did not show any speedometer, the 20-year-old wrote to Boosted at the time.

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