Overdue Fine from another Province

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So I received a fine in the post last week from Howick that was supposed to be paid in March.
I live in Joburg so how will they even know I received it?
What if I don't pay- cos it's overdue already?
 
In some instances it will just blow over, unless you have a enthusiastic person on the other side and then you might get a summons.

They wont link it to your license yet.

It all depends you can contact them and find out if there is a way they will reduce the fine for you as you only got it now, or you can leave it and hope it will go away.

But that might go two ways, if you go down to Howick any time soon and they pull you over, you might be arrested for an outstanding fine and summons or they will just scrap it.
 
Must be sent via registered mail.


make fire with it, at least you won't be wasting the paper.

there are a few detailed bits to this, search the net for all the details.
 
Acid0 said:
But that might go two ways, if you go down to Howick any time soon and they pull you over, you might be arrested for an outstanding fine and summons or they will just scrap it.
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If you have a warrant out for your arrest because of an unanswered summons it doesn't matter where in the country you are pulled over.
 
Venomous said:
Must be sent via registered mail.


make fire with it, at least you won't be wasting the paper.

there are a few detailed bits to this, search the net for all the details.
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Listen to this story:
I bought a new house in December 2012... the other day I received a fine in my postbox address to some previous tenant (apparently)

The whole fine looks dodgy, so I did some reading up on Google.
Apparently, there's some fraud going on, the site (save in my browser history at home) explains how they fake these fines.
The photo of the woman's car who appears on the fine I got in my post box, I checked using Google's street view... it is very suspicious to me because the road signs are not present, in the street view and looks somewhat different. I am going to drive there to confirm aswell.

As for what is odd about this fine:

1) Items misaligned on the page, as if it was put together in MS Word
2) Differing fonts in places
3) Stretched logos (the same kind of way I see it done on Nigerian scam e-mails)

I am investigating this further
 
deweyzeph said:
If you have a warrant out for your arrest because of an unanswered summons it doesn't matter where in the country you are pulled over.
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They may only arrest you if the warrant is present at the time. Else they must let you go...
 
Koosi said:
Listen to this story:
I bought a new house in December 2012... the other day I received a fine in my postbox address to some previous tenant (apparently)

The whole fine looks dodgy, so I did some reading up on Google.
Apparently, there's some fraud going on, the site (save in my browser history at home) explains how they fake these fines.
The photo of the woman's car who appears on the fine I got in my post box, I checked using Google's street view... it is very suspicious to me because the road signs are not present, in the street view and looks somewhat different. I am going to drive there to confirm aswell.

As for what is odd about this fine:

1) Items misaligned on the page, as if it was put together in MS Word
2) Differing fonts in places
3) Stretched logos (the same kind of way I see it done on Nigerian scam e-mails)

I am investigating this further
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yip, there is this.

But also,

even if from JMPD it must be sent by formal registered mail, else the fine is not a legal document. There is some law in that regard. There was some case, and JMPD were forced to write off months worth of fines. Those that had paid could reclaim their money.

Also the direction of trapping matters. Trapping permits are issued on one side of a road only(where they stand), meaning they may not fine people driving on the opposite side of the road.
 
deweyzeph said:
In theory yes, but in practice no.
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In practice they will try and arrest you they try and take away your phone so that you cannot call your lawyer
They have tried with me and let me go because I phoned the lawyer from the roadblock
 
Lastweek I got home and there was a courier standing infront of my yard. Delivery I said!!!! mmmmmm to my surprise it was a ticket from Hanover on my way to Cape Town July 2013 for R300 final notice payment for end july of face court, Woowwwww. Hand delivered!!!! hehehehe.
 
I'll piggiback on this thread if OP won't mind.

I got a fine from December 2012 for speeding through Wilderness (en route to CT from PE). I disputed the fine via email to the George traffic dept who issued it, my reasoning that there being another car in the pic.

After a few months and not hearing anything about it. I checked PayFine and the fine is gone from my name. I also checked my internet banking and it disappeared from there as well.

Then a few months ago I checked again and it showed up on PayFine once again, however on my Standard Bank IB I have no fines linked to my ID number.

Who do I trust in this scenario? To be honest I'm more inclined to trust the bank, and I'm not just saying that because I don't want to pay because I was fully prepared to pay the fine if they rejected my dispute and informed me of same.

edit: payfine or paycity as I see its known as nowadays
 
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