When was the last time you received a speeding fine?

When was the last time you received a speeding fine?

  • Within the past week

    Votes: 7 3.6%
  • Within the past month

    Votes: 15 7.8%
  • Within the past six months

    Votes: 17 8.9%
  • Within the past year

    Votes: 8 4.2%
  • Over a year ago

    Votes: 107 55.7%
  • I have never received a traffic fine

    Votes: 23 12.0%
  • I don't drive

    Votes: 5 2.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 10 5.2%

  • Total voters
    192
I got a speeding fine about 2 or 3 years ago, but it was my brother driving having borrowed my car.

I do my best not to speed these days. The roads are dangerous enough without barreling along at excessive speeds.
 
So I am not sure when last a speeding fine was issued, but I haven't received a fine in a while. Does the post office still deliver them?

I got an SMS purporting to be a fine, but it looked more like a phishing operation than a fine. It might have been a fine. But I ain't going to click on weird links.

Do people have to guess they are getting fines these days?
 
5 years ago, when a strict law enforcement officer miraculously appeared from under the foliage next to the road.
 
Can't remember actually getting one but had a few run ins with lunch money chancers but they give up when you "don't have money"
 
just leave it for 2 years and they expire
 
So I am not sure when last a speeding fine was issued, but I haven't received a fine in a while. Does the post office still deliver them?

I got an SMS purporting to be a fine, but it looked more like a phishing operation than a fine. It might have been a fine. But I ain't going to click on weird links.

Do people have to guess they are getting fines these days?

Good question. I don't think the City of Cape Town posts fines anymore since the collapse of the postal service. The last few times I've got a speeding fine the only way I knew was because I'm subscribed to some of these online fine paying services, but absolutely nothing came in the post. And now for the last year or so we don't even have postal delivery in our area so I definitely won't be getting anything in the post.
 
My last speeding fine was in 2018 at the Huguenot tunnel on my way to take part in the Cape Town Cycle Tour. To this day I still think that one was incorrectly issued, I drove with a Garmin GPS and cruise control active.

That one brought my total speeding fines to 5 since I started driving in 1980.

I have probably gotten 5 in one month.
 
The last was City of Joburg, they claimed that I sped on a specific date on a specific road.

I was not even in the city at the time.
 
The question should be.
Have you been pulled over and asked for a bribe?
 
Speeding fine? Eish, dunno, can't remember.

The joys of eThekwini, they still mail them and the Post Office works wonderfully, and I don't think they're integrated with PayFines or whatever those systems are.
 
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