I got a citation for a car that was not mine
A city staff member eventually reviewed the photo after I printed my registration and a note from my insurance company. The mistake was corrected, but the burden was on me to prove the system had guessed wrong.
In April 2026, the Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure mailed me a traffic citation from a Downtown Pittsburgh camera. The car in the picture was not mine. The plate was blurry, but the traffic management camera system matched it to my registration anyway.
City staff told me I could dispute it, but the instructions made it sound like I should pay first and argue later. A city staff member eventually reviewed the photo after I printed my registration and a note from my insurance company. The mistake was corrected, but the burden was on me to prove the system had guessed wrong.
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