Beware (Traffic Violations)
Last week i took my car for Renewal of Road Permit and came to know that i have a traffic violation of 700 Riyals.. and it was on al-waab street at 12AM during ramadan.It was a week day and week days at 12midnight i don't go out at all...First of all i decided to pay the fine and get my car's RP renewed, but suddenly changed my mind. Next day morning i went to madinat khalifa traffic department and asked for a picture.In the picture it was a toyota landcruiser(not my car) the difference between my car's registration number and the registration number of the Landcruiser was only the last digit. I showed my registration number to that fellow in traffic deparment and after confirming he said maybe it was a typing mistake and the traffic violation on my car will be deleted by tomorrow morning.whether this mistake happened or was done willingly i will recommend everyone to first see the picture of your car and verify that its you before paying any taffic speed radar violations.some people simply pay without verifying.please don't do that.
Interesting...I've recently been hit with 3 fines from earlier in the year, but I've been in and out of the country since and wasn't stopped at the airport, I should check these out...
yeah i know this has been practised for a long time
anyway thanks for bringing it up...and helping a lotta ppl
appreciate it :-)
taurz...if u pay the fine then they won't show u the pic...and only if u get an over speeding radar...for no parking and minor violations they don't provide pics...but yeah ask for the pic before you pay..verify that its you and then u can pay if u have made a mistake.
oww... thats a good info... never knew it was THAT easy to get a picture of the traffic violation..!!
shanawazt....yes very true...u have approach u can ask em to play with numbers and put the fine on someone else's car...i know this is happening from long ...
Thanks for your valid information. Highly appreciated.
and i m sure that was not a mistake it was done delibrately(playing with numbers)
pilgram ...go in the morning and u will be shown the pic...in evening the violations dept is closed.
Mark lester...it can happen again too
translator...these errors are really increasing..easy way to earn and snatch money from expats..if u have approach u can do anything here ...so many people are so scared to ask the traffic dept that they don't bother to go and check..they simply pay and leave...i no longer call it an error..its a planned strategy to rob expats
thanks for sharing :)
These errors are increasing, I was giving a violation which requires me to go to court, upon further checking, it turns out that the violation code was wrongly entered to the computer.
Perhaps they should have a double checking system, were two independent workers enter the same data, and the computer should flag cases when entered data does not match.
THANKS FOR INFO...ITS HAPPEN TO ME B4....
Going to do that on Thursday.
pilgram..just check ur pics before you pay the fine..they do mess with a digit or two while putting the fine on ur car's registration number.check before you pay.
TFS !!!!
I just checked mine and same thing. Apparently I was driving on Al Luqta street (somewhere around Carnegie Mellon according to Google maps) when I've never driven on Al Luqta street to my knowledge, at 11:15 pm on a Wednesday night. Now I'm in bed on Wednesday night at 8:30 cause I have work in the morning, and my husband does as well, so unless someone stole our car, it's not us.
rebel thanks for the info.
nadazeid...you are too young to drive :P first go get ur license :D
em driving from past 7 years..never paid a single penny into fines or tarffic violations...i didn't do it thats why i went for verification and foud out that its still not me :D hehe..
Good thing i dont drive
Good thing i don't drive
seems u r a frequent violator that u r not sure u actually did it!!
noms..how r u doin buddy?? well giving away 700 riyals for free is stupidity, its better to give it to a poor or needy rather then paying it to traffic deparment..they are rich..they already have landcruisers man..they will start keeping nissan safaris soon :P ,,,,as i said no one knows whether it was a mistake or else it was done willingly.
thanks rebel. I have heard of few such silly mistakes before from our Traffic guys.
welcome stanley..thought its better to share coz so many have already become the victims and have paid without any further verifications.
thanks for the info....