Lydia Newton has had a rough year. On July 31, Lydia lost her job due to shop closure, and in November she received a R1 000 fine from one of the cameras in Mandela Street. A fine for an alleged transgression that occurred on July 2.
Denise Turner has been trying to make contact with the traffic department for three months, but has been entirely unsuccessful and states that she feels “blatantly ignored.”
Not only has the fine only been received by Lydia four months after the alleged offence, and not only is it impossible to make out the number plate of the car in the photograph provided in the fine… but Lydia is sure that she was not driving on Mandela Road at all on the date and at the time stated in the fine.
Lydia was working fulltime up until July 31, and wasn’t able to leave her place of employment during the workday, meaning that she was only able to drive around before and after her working hours. The fine alleges that the transgression took place at 14:38, in the middle of Lydia’s working day.
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Lydia is one of eMalahleni’s many concerned citizens. She is almost certain that the vehicle in the photograph is not her car, as the number plate is not visible and she can provide references pertaining to her whereabouts on the day.
She, and her references, is contend that she was at work, not in her car, at the time that the camera snapped the image that accompanied her fine.
Lydia is not the only citizen of eMalahleni who is struggling.
Denise Turner, who the WITBANK NEWS previously reported on in its September 21 edition, is still struggling with the same issues which she brought forward for publication in September.
Denise has been trying, unsuccessfully, to request a reduction of a fine and change the driver to whom the fine was addressed since August.
Lydia claims that she was at work at the time that the speeding fine states that her vehicle was photographed exceeding the speed limit.
Denise isn’t unhappy about the fine specifically, but she is somewhat irked that in the three months that she’s been trying to make contact with the traffic department, that all of her attempts have been blatantly ignored.
Both Lydia and Denise’s struggles continue as eMalahleni’s citizens try to cope with the growing financial pressure imposed on them by the aforementioned speeding cameras.
