Philadelphia ? Better late than never.

That’s how John Gedge felt about paying a $15 speeding ticket he received from a guard in a Philadelphia park nearly 52 years ago.

Fairmount Park officials received a letter and a five-pound note this week from Gedge, now 84 and living in a nursing home in East Sussex, England. Five pounds was worth about $14 in 1954, about $9 today.

Gedge was visiting Philadelphia on July 15, 1954, when a park guard nabbed him for driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone.

He recently discovered the unpaid citation in the pocket of an old coat.

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