When was the last time you received a speeding fine?

[porchrat]

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.

 

[satanboy]

So then 20km/h over because you are allowed 10km/h over.

I can't remember it was more than 20 years ago. I remember I was barely over imho.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

last time I paid? about 6 months ago, 80 in a 60 zone, the capetownians know how to get fines to you, in JHB, no such luck,

 

[RunningFromFat]

The need for speed has finally (nearly) died in me

So it takes that long? Im calming down these days and im almost half your age.

 

[animal531]

About 2005 or so.

 

[RunningFromFat]

last time I paid? about 6 months ago, 80 in a 60 zone, the capetownians know how to get fines to you, in JHB, no such luck,

This gets me in the south coast. But I didn’t know it changed to 60. Sneaky signs or lack thereof.

 

[Johand]

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?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

This gets me in the south coast. But I didn’t know it changed to 60. Sneaky signs or lack thereof.

or just the vallie in me used to it being 80 or so on a 2 lane road,
will say you cape town people are efficient with speed cameras.

 

[Pink Floyd]

5 years ago, when a strict law enforcement officer miraculously appeared from under the foliage next to the road.

 

[DreamKing]

over 20 years.

 

[AstroTurf]

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"

 

[qscwbt]

just leave it for 2 years and they expire

 

[Sworaxe]

Never. Gauteng is PvP zone without mods.

 

[deweyzeph]

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.

 

[Quicks]

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.

 

[rh1]

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.

 

[Thugscub]

The question should be.
Have you been pulled over and asked for a bribe?

 

[Stokstert]

1972 in the godforsaken city of Vryburg.

 

[ToxicBunny]

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.

 

[cr@zydude]

Only reason I got one was thanks to Knysna muni - doing 80 on the N2

I've had 2 speeding tickets in 15 years of driving. Both tickets were on the N2 in the Garden Route for similar speeds.