From 2022 to November 2024, 49,598 traffic summonses worth millions of ringgit were issued to foreign-registered vehicles – 41,005 of which remain unpaid, city traffic enforcement and investigation department (JSPT) director Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan has said, according to the New Straits Times.
Singaporean vehicles accounted for the most saman (28,642 unpaid out of 33,033 issued) followed by Thailand (6,589 out of 7,725), Brunei (3,721 out of 5,917), Indonesia (585 out of 772) and other countries (1,468 out of 2,151), he said, adding that last year saw only 8,593 foreign vehicle saman settled.
Speeding was the top violation (33,226 saman issued), followed by failure to obey traffic signals (4,576), traffic obstruction (3,514), queue-jumping (2,022) and other offences (8,370), Mohd Yusri said.
“A total of 14 Operasi Saman Tertunggak Warganegara Asing (operations on outstanding traffic summonses involving foreigners) were conducted from 2014 to 2024 in states bordering Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia. Of these, six operations were conducted in Johor, four in Perlis, Kedah, and Perak; two in Kelantan, and one each in Sarawak and Sabah,” he said, adding that a payment counter was set up at each roadblock for motorists’ convenience.
But one doesn’t need to pay in person – the MyBayar PDRM portal, launched in 2021, can be used by both Malaysians and non-Malaysians to check and pay their saman online. See our how-to guide here, and if you want to do it on your phone, you can get the app for iOS, Android or Huawei.
Last August, Mohd Yusri revealed that from 1990 to June 2024, there were 41 million unpaid traffic fines valued at RM4 billion, including some 51,128 fines totalling RM5.1 million that were issued to foreign-registered vehicles. Singapore topped the list with 35,011 fines valued at RM3.5 million in total.
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