SILK freeway toll evader caught – driver of Honda Metropolis pays RM256 owed in toll fare, together with admin charges

Freeway toll evasion is an offence that has drawn the eye of Prolintas, which has deployed operations to catch customers of its highways which have been evading fee of toll fares. Most just lately, the highway operator has caught another highway user that has been discovered to have evaded fee by 59 passages of toll plazas.

The freeway person was the motive force of a white Honda Metropolis (pictured), who was caught on the Kajang-SILK freeway and was discovered to have owed RM256.20 in toll fare together with administrative charges. The quantity owed was paid on the spot by the motive force of the car, in accordance with Prolintas.

Toll evasion is one thing in all probability as previous as tolled roads, which this usually happens when a car tailgates the one in entrance, so as to additionally go by earlier than the increase gate closes.

At current, those that evade tolls might be charged below Part 8 of the Federal Roads (Non-public Administration) Act 1984, which states {that a} superb of between RM2,000 and RM5,000 might be imposed upon conviction. This nevertheless requires the toll concessionaire concerned to file a civil swimsuit in opposition to the offender.