Pay your traffic fines or face the consequences
Pay your traffic fine or contest it in court or face expensive consequences says EMPD.
Be a responsible citizen and make an effort to ensure that you pay your traffic fine for the offence committed by you.
The metro has for some time now ensured that facilities to pay fines electronically are available for the convenience of traffic offenders.
Over and above this, there are other websites where one can pay a traffic fine in the comfort of your home or office and each and every town in Ekurhuleni has a walk-in office to pay.
“In the event you, as a motorist, feel a traffic fine was unfairly issued, there are several recourses available, including submitting a written representation, seeing a senior public prosecutor or contesting the fine in court,” said Chief Supt Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.
“Ignoring the fine and hoping that it will disappear is unwise as it could end up with a magistrate issuing a warrant of arrest thus leading to your arrest or you forking out a huge unbudgeted amount to stay out of jail.”
In an operation held by the EMPD in Alberton, last Sunday, motorists had to do just that and 21 drivers with warrants of arrests on unpaid traffic fines were detained and compelled to dig deep into their pockets to pay a total of R17 600 to avoid sleeping in police cells.
“Twenty-eight other drivers wisely paid their outstanding fines on site – with no warrants issued – totalling R15 520 – to ensure that they were on the safe side of the law,” said Kgasago.
The EMPD implores motorists to periodically check the status of their traffic fines to avoid undesirable consequences.
