Thai drivers ignoring 11 million traffic tickets

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Thai drivers ignoring 11 million traffic tickets

By The Nation

 

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With drivers in Thailand currently ignoring more than 11 million traffic tickets, police are hastening efforts to link their online database with the Land Transport Department’s vehicle registration system.

 

Pol Lt Gen Kraiboon Suadsong, head of a police committee in charge of solving traffic snarls in Metropolitan Bangkok, said 13,515,036 traffic tickets had been issued this year as of October 7 and recorded in the Royal Thai Police Ticket Management System.

 

But only 2,338,968 of the drivers ticketed had paid their fines, leaving the rest – 83 per cent – in violation of the law.

 

Of the 13.5 million tickets, 2.31 million were issued on the spot, while the rest were mailed to drivers caught on camera violating traffic laws.

 

Kraiboon said no fines had been remitted for 1.33 million tickets issued on the spot and 9.838 million tickets mailed out.

 

Kraiboon said he had instructed the IT team of the Royal Thai Police to work out with the Land Transport Department to link the PTM and vehicle registration systems.

 

Motorists who do not pay their fines would be unable to renew their vehicle registration annually as required.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356768

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-10-19

[markytarky]

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

[stanleycoin]

7 minutes ago, markytarky said:

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

The usual, know one will care.

Situation normal. PC Plonker will still sit on his arse all day long.

Carry on Thailand. 

[Samuel Smith]

6 minutes ago, markytarky said:

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

Send them a fine in the post ???? 

[taninthai]

Good on the Thais I say ,people in my country roll over to easy and simply pay everything ,tv license,dog license even have to pay to park when visiting sick or dying  relatives in hospital........

power to the people I say.

[anon2736434]

And how many still have the same address as on their id cards ? 

[Just1Voice]

26 minutes ago, markytarky said:

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

Don't ask so many questions.  You'll only confuse them. lol

 

[keith101]

3 minutes ago, Notagain said:

And how many still have the same address as on their id cards ? 

Or the vehicle has been sold and the new owner hasn't changed to their name very convenient for speeders .

[how241]

Time for a computer upgrade.

[anon2736434]

Time to collect all the big paper binders of records and start tracking them down hahaha

[happy chappie]

So set up speed cameras then think about how to sort the fine system out.its time to call in papa big joke to arrest the 9.8 million offenders.

[canopus1969]

7 minutes ago, how241 said:

Time for a computer upgrade.

Correct - from Win 7 

[Jazz5555]

45 minutes ago, markytarky said:

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

So no insurance? 

[Gus0898uk]

If a Farang was one of the 11 million (No, I'm not :)) would this flag up on the immigration computers at Suvarnabhumi if the Farang was leaving Thailand?

[kotsak]

8 minutes ago, canopus1969 said:

Correct - from Win 7 

It would be great if they have Win 7. More like some pirated copy of Windows XP.

[jvs]

3 minutes ago, Gus0898uk said:

If a Farang was one of the 11 million (No, I'm not :)) would this flag up on the immigration computers at Suvarnabhumi if the Farang was leaving Thailand?

Yes it would show up,you will not be allowed to leave.

You will be deported instead.

[lonewolf99]

The 13% of the violators who paid up were probably not Thai. i.e. Ex-pats from countries that have a proper legal system and driving tests.

 

How in their wildest dreams did they ever think that they could hope to change a mind of set of just normally handling over a couple of hundred baht?

For driving offences in some instances that would have you banned in the west after doing the same act 3 times. Excess speeding for one. Drink driving in the UK carries an immediate 1 year ban unless your name is Beckham.  See below.

 

"In the UK, driving or attempting to drive whilst above the legal limit of 0.08% BAC in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 0.05% BAC in Scotland or unfit through drink carries a maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment, a fine of up to £5,000 and a minimum twelve months' disqualification."

[jmacken306]

23 minutes ago, how241 said:

Time for a computer upgrade.

Yeah, I can't believe all the places that use inkjet printers, including The Army Hospital when I visit every 3-4 months.

[KMartinHandyman]

Yes it would show up,you will not be allowed to leave.
You will be deported instead.

Seems like a stretch if they’re not computer integrated to their own citizens vehicle registrations yet.

[wgdanson]

4 minutes ago, jmacken306 said:

Yeah, I can't believe all the places that use inkjet printers, including The Army Hospital when I visit every 3-4 months.

Inkjet???? Don't you mean dot-matrix.

[DrTuner]

They'll never be able to connect their databases unless they accept foreign help, hopeless. I received a ticket for the previous owner of the house last week, seems he'd been naughty and ran a red light in BKK. Add to the 11M pile.

[stud858]

1 hour ago, markytarky said:

So, then you will have 11 million vehicles with invalid registrations. What then? 

Vehicle dipossession. 

[how241]

31 minutes ago, jmacken306 said:

Yeah, I can't believe all the places that use inkjet printers, including The Army Hospital when I visit every 3-4 months.

They might have spent the computer upgrade money buying the yellow submarines.  After all,  you need to get the important things first.

[Jimbo in Thailand]

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

Or the vehicle has been sold and the new owner hasn't changed to their name

Not just Thailand.  This happened with my cruising sailboat I had sold in the US just prior to moving here in 2005.  The new owner didn't register it in his name, as is required.  A year, or more, later I began getting nasty delinquent tax notices from both the county and state where I had it berthed.  It took some phone calls and letters to get it cleared up as, typical for government droids, they didn't believe my story that I had actually sold it and moved out of the US.  Of course, scans of my passport stamps and confirmation from the marina manager solved the problem.  Yep, not just Thailand!

 

[Odysseus123]

48 minutes ago, Gus0898uk said:

If a Farang was one of the 11 million (No, I'm not :)) would this flag up on the immigration computers at Suvarnabhumi if the Farang was leaving Thailand?

Damn tootin' it would be flagged..

Evil fellow  that  you are.????

[trainman34014]

Easily solved with Balls as all the registration numbers are in the system.   Just run a TV advertising Campaign for one month advising all drivers that if their fines are not paid in 14 days their vehicles will be impounded and crushed.   If you punish offenders hard enough it will end the problem.    All this nonsense about being  'Tolerant Society' is just an excuse for disgusting behaviour by all and sundry.

[Dmaxdan]

Easily solved with Balls as all the registration numbers are in the system.   Just run a TV advertising Campaign for one month advising all drivers that if their fines are not paid in 14 days their vehicles will be impounded and crushed.   If you punish offenders hard enough it will end the problem.    All this nonsense about being  'Tolerant Society' is just an excuse for disgusting behaviour by all and sundry.

The problem is It wouldn't work. All the Thais would throw their toys out of their prams and complain about being unfairly treated, even though they had already broken the law. So the government would immediately backtrack and everything would revert back to normal.
A recent case in point being the recent proposed increase in fines for driving without a license...due to public outcry a final decision was put on hold probably for ever.


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[Samuel Smith]

Raise the speed limits on dual carriageways. 90kph is too low!  

[zzaa09]

Subvert the crooked systems. 

 

Live one's protest.

 

[dabhand]

The OP is assuming that all tickets from earlier years have been paid. Given my personal experience I certainly know that is not true.......

 

So the full extent of the unpaid tickets is anyone's guess.