Tucheng is a township 12 miles south Taipei.

The 45-year-old woman, identified only as Mrs. Wu, was given a speeding ticket on October 23 last year. She was required to pay NT$8,000 in fine.

She appealed.

Mrs. Wu said she couldn’t have driven that fast with three aging grandfathers aboard her car. “How could I, with the trio aboard?” she asked the judge.

“Something was wrong with the monitor video checking the car speed,” Mrs. Wu insisted.

But the deposition by traffic police said nothing was wrong with the speed-checking radar at Xindien, where Mrs. Wu was shown speeding on the camera.

Xindien is a city Taipei’s mass rapid transit system serves.

In particular, the deposition said, the speed limit on the Xindien highway is 60 kilometers an hour, whereas she exceeded that speed by 68 kilometers at 2:30 p.m.

The judge ordered Mrs. Wu to pay the fine.

As his ruling was final, Mrs. Wu paid.

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