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Rolf W. Schlub

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2011

04 Dec 2018, 17:45

Opportunism and ******ion of traffic officers

Today I got a call from the Mossel Bay magistrate court that there was a warrant out for my arrest, a R200 penalty and my ID number was blocked. And of this because I hadn't paid a traffic infringement that I had contested before the court date. I hate this ************, *******ed and pathetic municipality !!!

Here my dispute to the infringment: I am objecting a traffic fine for the reasons described below. At the time of infringement, I was travelling very close to the general speed limit for South African National freeways – 120km/h. My speed of 122km/h proves that I was sincerely trying to adhere to this. After being stopped by Officer D. van Rensburg I was made aware of a speed sign located over 1.5km away from the road block that I (and lots of other motorists) overlooked and no further sign is presented until after the road block. Being new to this area, I would at the very least expect a second cautionary sign reinforcing the legal speed limit before encountering any road block. I respectfully consider this opportunistic and unfair. I have since driven that segment of highway again and repeatedly observed the road block in the same location confirming this to be a lucrative location to trap motorist unfairly on a segment where I believe there to be insufficient signage even for law abiding motorists. There are ample speed boards at regular intervals presented from the road block onwards going past PetroSA justly informing motorists of the speed along that segment. I am attaching the diagram below illustrating the location of the speed boards and locality of the contested road block.

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