traffic fines in post

[sa-shooter]

So its fine to break the law since the punishment is only to make money?

By the same logic its ak for criminals to sell and trafic drugs, kill innocent people and break into homes because they are doing it to make money?

SAS

[making]

Nawu i did not acknowledge anything.!f

[Springer]

If you get a traffic fine because you were speeding, rather just pay the damned thing. Problem. Gone.

[Paul]

one thing i do not understand is people that do not pay fines. you broke the law and got caught and now you refuse the cosequenses of your actions.

No. A vehicle bearing a registration number similar to a registration number which may at one time have been registered to you is alleged to have broken the speed limit. This is an untested allegation. It is not at all prima facie evidence of anything at all.

[Boomstomp]

No. A vehicle bearing a registration number similar to a registration number which may at one time have been registered to you is alleged to have broken the speed limit. This is an untested allegation. It is not at all prima facie evidence of anything at all.

haha

Your post on this thread reminds me of the ending of "Thank you for smoking"!

[prepare2win]

considering almost twice as many people die on our roads daily than are murdered, don't drive like a P@#$

[Wismit]

What "usually" happen is that the municipality concerned will send you several reminders and summons by ordinary mail because sending it by registered mail is too expensive.

There is no court that will issue a warrant of arrest if the summons was not personally served on you or served by registered mail.

The municipality will then "sell" these fines to a private company. (They will sell a R1000 fine for say R400). This private company will now try and threaten you over the phone and by mail until you are so scared and pay your fine, and so they make R600 profit.

Those municipalities which do not sell the fines will just refuse to renew your vehicles license if you have outstanding fines on the system.

W.S

[Skaaphaas]

Geez people.

The man wants to make sure he is liable.

As an offender you are entitled to be proven guilty. If he feels the equipment was not properly calibrated, or that the other vehicle may have interfered, he is entitled to ask for proof.

Making, if you want to test these things, don't pay the fine and wait for a summons. Then at the trial the state will have to prove all the elements of the offence, and you can test the veracity thereof.

As it stands, only AARTO fines must be sent by registered mail, and the cape is not on the AARTO system. Their normal post is perfectly legal.

Also you don't "have to do their work for them". The NRTA contains a presumption that the lawfully registered owner of a car was driving ot at the time of the offence. If you weren't the driver, the onus is on you to tell them who the driver was, it is after all your car.

As to your reaction to Nawu's joke, he is technically correct, you have acknowledged that you have received the fine.

[Wismit]

you have acknowledged that you have received the fine.

No, he acknowledged that he received "a fine"

W.S

[Wismit]

normal post is perfectly legal.

What do you mean with this statement?
Is it your view that normal post is a "legal" way of serving a document and/or summons?

W.S