Only 3 out of 1,190 AES offenders turn up in court

CYBERJAYA: Transport Minister Anthony Loke revealed that only three offenders in Automated Enforcement System (AES) related cases had turned up in court.

This was out of the 1,190 who were summoned in Kedah, Perak and Penang.

He said the ministry was adopting a no-nonsense approach in dealing with AES offenders by taking those who failed to settle their summonses after 60 days, to court.

“If they fail to show up in court, arrest warrants will be issued against them.

“But we will not knock on their doors to arrest them.

“We will blacklist them and they will not be able to renew their driving licences and road tax until they settle their summonses,” he said after visiting the Road Transport Department’s Digital Technology data centre here.

He added that between Sept 1 and Nov 8, 60,444 AES summonses had been issued for speeding and 4,575 summonses for running red lights nationwide.

“Only 1,711 summonses for speeding and 167 summonses for running red lights have been paid.”

Loke also said the government had cancelled 4.03 million AES summonses issued from 2012 to Aug 31 this year.

“I have been told that all of these summonses have been struck off the RTD database.”

On the quantum of compound to be paid for AES summonses, Loke said it would be RM300 each, stressing there would be no discount.

“Anything under RTD, there will be no discount. Once they have settled their summonses, those who have been blacklisted will be removed from the list.”