A Quebec City-area man was quite surprised when he received a speeding ticket in the mail for speeding where he doesn’t go, at a time he doesn’t go out, and with a car that he doesn’t use not heard.
It has been nearly two months since radar was installed on the Dufferin-Montmorency highway near Boulevard François-de-Laval in Quebec City to force motorists to slow down.
As of February 28, he had raised more than $94,000 for the Quebec government for a total of 555 tickets. But he obviously seems to have had a few hiccups as well.
“I’m being made to take steps to contest this when I’m not even involved! It’s completely ridiculous!” Plage Rémy Paradis, a resident of Île-d’Orléans, who was fined $140 for an offense he didn’t commit.
Another car
The speeding ticket obtained shows that he was driving at 98 km/h at the site of the new camera radar on the Dufferin-Montmorency motorway, where the speed limit is 70 km/h.
On the indictment sent to him by mail and consulted by Le Journal, we can see the photo of a Hyundai Kona SUV taken on February 16 at 11:57 p.m.
Photo courtesy of Rémy Paradis
Rémy Paradis’ Hyundai Tucson (above) was mistaken for the Hyundai Kona (above) traveling at high speed on the Dufferin-Montmorency highway on February 16.
However, the following pages were filled out on behalf of Mr. Paradis and his vehicle, a Hyundai Tucson of a different color than the photographed car. The license plate is also different, although similar.
“Not only is that not even my car, I never drive this road, let alone at midnight,” laments the man, who fears other people may have paid such a fine without really being guilty.
A rare mistake
The Sûreté du Québec states that this type of error is “very rare”, although we cannot provide data on this. We cannot explain what could have happened in this case.
“That’s a situation that can arise when we’re talking about a blind panel, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here,” said Béatrice Dorsainville, spokeswoman for the provincial police.
The sergeant tells the man to dispute the ticket, assuring that if there is indeed an error there will be no trace of it on his file.
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