More than six million fines issued by the road transport department (JPJ) with an estimated value of RM806.9 million have remained unpaid from 2010 until October 2024 due to motorists who have not settled payment for their fines, reported New Straits Times.
The fines issued were for traffic offences including speeding, running red lights and disobeying traffic rules, which were the main contributors to the growing number of fines issued, according to the report. The largest sum for outstanding fines was recorded last year at RM286 million, compared to RM203 million in 2023, RM87 million in 2022, RM30 million in 2021 and RM9 million in 2020.
During this period, the JPJ issued more than 26 million fines for various offences, with 15 million fines settled and generating over RM2.3 billion in revenue, NST reported.
Restrictions can be imposed on motorists with outstanding fines and are reluctant to settle them, such as disallowing the renewal of driving licences or vehicle road tax, said JPJ director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli.
These measures are among those that the JPJ can take against the public for failing to resolve outstanding fines, while the JPJ has been actively educating the public on settling outstanding fines, the JPJ director-general said.
The road transport department plans to introduce new features to the MyJPJ mobile app to notify users about payment of fines, as the public currently do not receive these messages through the app, Aedy Fadly said, who also said that the public should take advantage of the special discount on fines, as announced by transport minister Anthony Loke.
“We are offering a special fine discount of RM150 for three categories of fines under Section 53A of the Road Transport Act 1987 (Act 333), including fines from the Automated Awareness Safety System (AwAS) cameras, fines under Notice 114, and fines under Notice 115,” Aedy Fadly said.
“For these three categories of fines, the public is required to pay RM300. I urge Malaysians to take advantage of this opportunity, as it is a one-time offer. The JPJ has never provided such a reduction before,” he said, adding that the JPJ would take legal action if the public continues to refuse to pay the fines.
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15 years and only MAY face restrictions. (Read between the lines: may or may not.)
How many are still alive? They should be hauled to the court long time ago.
Malaysians habit is to owe everything from fines, car loans, mortgage loans and even PTPTN loans. with the money that should be use for paying what they owe, they will use it for holidays, buy new gadgets, buy new cars or motorcycles, buy new clothes, eat good food and on their hobbies.
Must enforce the law strictly no compromise.
Bunch of useless MYsian that love to owe ppl money, be it fines or loans / credit cards.
Actually why cant JPJ connect their own systems?? If they can connect the insurance renewal with roadtax renewal, then why not the fines ?
JPJ database have a lot of information which the transport ministry can make use to find irregularities. Past ministry have neglected or dont have competency to extract these information. It is time ministry look into how to make good use of these database to enforce regulation pertaining to road transport. JPJ we all have been sleeping and the result if unimaginable offences on the road,total failure of the meaning licencing and possible failure in administration
probably waiting for discount to settle it
No one cares if it is not court case order. Wait until discount or wait somemore also no problem.
It is bloody sad that such a simple subject of fines collection is a problem for us. All renewals must be tied to the unpaid fines. It is so simple that my dead grandmother could have said so.
Yet in Malaysia, we REWARD late payment of summons, which essentially PUNISHES those that pay early. Sigh.
just shows how weak our enforcement are..no wonder people dont care when they got saman.
PDRM should be offer discounts for those with expired road tax and insurance.
Testriction to renew roadtax or license for Saman more than 3 month must apply these year 2025 to educate the driver abide rules to reduce current higher accident by vehicle accident to
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Fines or compounds is to educate the public road users to obey orders and discipline. It is not a mean for government revenue.