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6,500 foreign drivers dodge speeding fines
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MORE than 6,500 foreign drivers escaped speeding fines in Scotland
last year, The Scotsman can reveal.
Police fear that the total is increasing because of a growing
influx of migrant workers from eastern Europe.
The number of foreign drivers caught speeding was highest in
Tayside, where the total of 2,011 accounts for more than one in eight
of its speeding cases.
No action can be taken against foreign-registered vehicles caught
by speed cameras because of the lack of international agreements over
the exchange of such information.
However, even foreign drivers stopped by police patrols can ...
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