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IrelandPhiladelphia driver gets wrong-car speeding ticket dismissed with NBC10's help
An unreadable license plate passed through a multistep review, leaving a woman facing a lengthy wait to challenge the citation.
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- 0:33Abouelseoud receives a speeding citation for a Jeep she doesn't own; glare obscures the photographed plate.
- 0:54Her mailed dispute leaves her facing a five-month wait for a hearing.
- 1:19The report explains the PPA and police checks intended to verify the vehicle's plate.
- 2:00The PPA acknowledges that human error led to the citation.
- 2:24NBC10 reports the ticket's dismissal; police say unreadable plates must not produce citations.
- 2:59Aponte-Feliciano advises disputing incorrect citations by the deadline rather than ignoring them.
The Jeep in the speed-camera photograph wasn't Eman Abouelseoud's. Glare obscured its license plate, yet a $100 speeding citation still arrived in her name.
NBC10 Philadelphia's report follows her effort to correct an error that should have been caught before the ticket reached her. She disputed it by mail, then faced a five-month wait for a February hearing. Instead of waiting, she contacted NBC10 Responds reporter Valeria Aponte-Feliciano.
The report traces how the citation got through: the Philadelphia Parking Authority reviews footage and motor vehicle records, followed by a license-plate check by the Philadelphia Police Department's Neighborhood Services Unit. Those checks did not prevent the wrong person from being ticketed.
Confronted with the obscured plate, PPA Deputy Executive Director Corinne O'Connor acknowledged the mistake. "It's a human error. We made a mistake. We have to rectify it and dismiss the ticket," she said.
The citation was dismissed within 48 hours of NBC10's intervention. Police also confirmed that citations must be rejected when the plate's characters cannot be fully made out.
The report has drawn roughly 47,000 views, far beyond the station's usual first-day audience for regular videos. Viewers are discussing the burden of challenging an incorrect ticket and why resolving this one required a newsroom's involvement.
Aponte-Feliciano closes with a practical warning: don't ignore an erroneous citation. Dispute it by the deadline to avoid additional fees.
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- Channel
- NBC10 Philadelphia
- Subscribers
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,012,901
- Channel views, pace per day
- 381,713 (on a normal day: 234,411)
- Video published
- November 13, 2026
- Video views so far
- 46,936 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 45,674
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The wrong-car citation report drew an unusually large audience for NBC10 Philadelphia, with a much busier comment section than its regular uploads typically receive.
