Do you have an outstanding AES saman? Listen up, because the Road Transport Department (JPJ) has warned those who have Automated Enforcement System (AES) summonses received after April 15 this year to pay up ASAP, or face court action, the New Straits Times reports.
According to JPJ director-general Datuk Seri Nadzri Siron, motorists who fail to settle their AES compounds of RM150 can be fined a maximum of RM2,000 should their case be taken to court. “Those who received their AES summonses after that date (April 15) will have to pay up. We will not hesitate to take them to court if they fail to do so,” he said.
AES offenders before April 15 – the date that the Automated Awareness System (AWAS, which AES is now under) and Kejara demerit points system kicked off – will only be charged a levy. “The levy imposed by the government (without threat of court action) is only applicable to those who received their AES summonses before April 15 this year,” Nadzri added.
Currently, there are 21 AES cameras across the country, with 50 more to be installed this year according to JPJ. In June, deputy transport minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said that 100 more AES cameras will be installed at strategic spots nationwide in 2018.
Nadzri denied that JPJ is just out to make money, and also the rumour that AES cameras have been installed at toll plazas.
“Our intention is to educate people on good driving ethics. It’s not true that we have the AES cameras at the toll plaza as alleged. The cameras are installed in hotspot areas and they’re only one-way. The images captured will be either of the front or rear of your car. We only want to see your car plate number,” he said.
By the way, AES cameras will now “shoot from behind”. This applies to all AES cameras and the move, which started quietly last month, is for better image clarity and a higher chance of catching errant motorcyclists in the act.
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I have written this a month ago when Mr. Liow Liow Tiong Lai, made a public statement about the AES system. I hope the demerit points only be given when a vehicle is captured at speeding 30km/h faster than the 110 km/h speed limit. Below that speed, just give them a fine. Fine only. Demerit points are for those who drove more than 30km/h over speed limit for highways.
Just don’t treat those who went 5km/h as criminals. The current Demerit points of giving 2 demerit points for those driving at 1-25km/h over speed limit is wrong. Very wrong. A person mistakenly overshot by 1km/h should not receive the same demerit points as a person driving 25km/h over the speed limit. I object to the demerit points being given to a man who drove just 10km/h over the speed limit.
Buses and heavy lorries must strictly adhere to the speed limits. They are supposed to keep the passengers SAFE. That is their professional duty. The lorries are doing a professional job of sending the goods or even deadly chemicals to their clients. If they do not follow the speed limit, the chemicals can cause fatalities on the road. Other road users may die.
Only now would the government, and the Transport Minister , the Transport Minister finally say it in public that that is not the correct thing to do when the police hide under the bridges to capture the photo of cars and vehicles passing the speed limit. Like many, I was one of those 10-20km/h over the speed limit. Not causing any danger to other road users.
1. Yes. Don’t hide under a bridge to capture the photo of a speeding car. It serves no purpose in slowing him down. He didn’t know it. Instead, give the drivers sufficient warning that there is a speed trap ahead of him so that he may be persuaded to slow down. The purpose is to make sure the road is safe. The purpose is not to fine the drivers and collect money.
2. However, the progressive increase in fines for speeding is not yet carried out effectively and have not been publicly informed. A car, driven at 121km/h, having gone past the speed limit by 11kmm/h is not driven at excessive speed.
However, A car speeding at 200km/h is endangering everybody else on the road.
At 200km/h, the driver has deliberately gone twice as fast as the speed limit.
Therefore, there ought to be progressive increase in fines for speeding.
For example:
10km/h over the speed limit – RM 50/- . Don’t give demerit points
20km/h over the speed limit – RM 100/-. Don’t give demerit points.
30-40km/h over the speed limit – RM 300/- plus 2 demerit points
50km/h over the speed limit – RM 1,000/- plus 3 demerit points
60km/h-70km/h over the speed limit – RM 3,000/- plus 4 demerit points
70km/h and above over the speed limit – RM 5,000 and 6 demerit points.
But ample warning must be given ahead of the speed camera.
Even with the warning and they still go 70km/h over the speed limit, then, you have no excuse. That means the driver deliberately did it. SO, then, HE DESERVES the fine and demerit points.
3. Most fatal accidents or most grave injury accidents are not on such highways. They are usually head-on collisions due to overtaking other vehicles on the trunk roads.
How does these accidents happen. In many cases, there are very slow lorries driven on these trunk roads. As a result, one row of cars are stuck at the back of these lorries. They decide to overtake. When they are not careful, they collide with the vehicles on the opposite direction at a high speed head-on collision.
Here is where the traffic police should find ways to solve this problem. Previously, they spend time “collecting money” just because they can , and just because it would seem that a lot of work is done catching people speeding on the highways. Most of the people are those just 10-20km/h over the speed limit and not causing much danger on the road.
That kind of mentality should be the thing of the past.
Firstly, you are burdening the road users with fines.
Secondly, the traffic police are not helping people to be safer.
4. Many vehicles try to beat the red lights. Here is where the cameras should be fixed and managed well to catch what is truly dangerous to other road users. Otherwise, place policemen here. Here is where you can save lives.
5. Just because the policeman at traffic lights or dangerous junctions could not show that their doing their work compared to the guy who use speedtrap on the highway, it does not mean the officer manning the speedtrap is doing more work than his colleague. The number of fines the officer got is not to be viewed as a measurement of how hard he worked. That is a wrong measurement.
6. Finally, the enforcement must be there. And the information and education to the public is important. In order for the driving culture to change, the Minister of Transport ought to make sure everybody knows about it. YOu may think once you said it, everybody heard it. That is not true. So many labourers or those who don’t turn on the radio and TV would not have heard what you said. What you implement will be a failure when people didn’t hear what you have said. Thousands would not have read the newspapers. Thousands more would not have read it on the internet because IT DID NOT APPEAR on their “interested topic”. Therefore, maybe 10% of the rakyat heard what you said over the radio. The rest do not know anything about it.
VIncent Choo.
I want to paste this on Traffic police websites and the government websites as well.
Even when this is read, it take many years before Parliament pass rules and regulations to implement it. Meanwhile, many people would have suffered accidents on the still dangerous roads due to the wrong driving habits.
JPJ should just clean up their corrupted officers first. No amount of AES can help when 9 out of 10 of their enforcement officers are asking money and duit kopi
Gov has given umpteen chances & even diskaun to lawbreakers but do they bertaubat. NO!!!
If pipu cant learn with carrot, its time pipu learn via stick. JPJ, PDRM, SPAD, & enforcement agencies, its hammer time on them lawbreakers. No mercy, saman them no problemo.
saman the majority no problemo.
Why saman majority of lawbreakers?
MUST SAMAN ALL LAWBREAKERS!
Its time to stop gip chance and gip face. Hammer them until they learn to RESPECT the law.
Speeding is not the main cause of accidents, it is reckless driving and unfocused driving. If you car cannot go fast safely then shut up and follow the limit, let others speed as they wish. Most people speed on the highways and like you said, most of the fatalities are on the trunk roads, so focus on that.
No need lar, everytime also mentioned the same and then some people really takut and then go pay. In the end no action taken for those didn’t paid also. So what’s the point when just talk only each time, just issue court order and handcuff all of them. If not enough handcuff then do it in batches. This is just so funny from them JPJ and PDRM also same.
The enforcement in malaysia sucks big time….
So dun complain when the saman letter comes.
It could be triggered the ROI after heavy investment. Installation of CCTV along the highways and roads should be the priority. AES doesn’t help to reduce crimes, just a burden for those who are careless.
AES may help with speeding but for everything else there is car dash cam. every car dash cam on the road acts as a possible eyes for JPJ. you could spot people using mobile phone while driving, people who drove recklessly, people who cut queue, people who use emergency lanes, road bullies. why aren’t JPJ emphasizing this ‘assets’? the best tool they ‘have’ is the one that is free, which is let the road users turns among themselves and report to you. and you just evaluate the evidence and issue summonses based on the strength of those video evidences.
They r if u din read the news. U can now take own evidence and send it to JPJ & SPAD.