Car black box used as speeding evidence

The ‘black box’ in most modern cars which monitors how fast they move is to be used as evidence in a major court case for the first time, the AD reports on Monday.


The case centres on a 25-year-old man from Schiedam, who is charged with causing the death of four people while speeding on December 26.
The black box fitted to his American car shows the man was driving at 147 kph in a street where the maximum speed is 30 kph, the paper says.
The paper says Rotterdam police are the first in the country to have apparatus which can read the information contained in the black box so it can be used as evidence.

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