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7 SEP 07: SPEEDING TICKETS BY HELO

IS this the most expensive speeding ticket ever? The photo shows a BMW Z4 sports car travelling at 134mph but the driver hasn't been nabbed by Gatso - it was shot from a specially equipped helicopter from a half-mile away.

This time the driver was lucky - he was taking part in a government trial and the new helicopter-based system has yet to be approved. Spain's transport ministry, the Direccion General de Trafico (DGT), says the radar system is accurate from an altitude of 1000ft and a distance of 1km.

The DGT wants to launch a fleet of surveillance helicopters to curb speeding in major cities. They will be fitted with a Wescam MX15 forward-looking infrared camera which will take a close-up photograph of the vehicle's numberplate while an airborne radar system generates a speed estimate that appears on the image.
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