" Illegal parkers attempting to lie way out of fines "
Claiming that a car or number
plate has been stolen has become a popular ruse to avoid paying parking fines
since the 2006 revised Road Traffic Law empowered police to impose penalties on
both drivers and car owners.
Police are alarmed at the
emergence of Web sites advising car owners liable for parking fines to lie
because they can have their fines withdrawn if they say their vehicles have been
stolen when explaining parking infringements.
In November, the Metropolitan
Police Department sent papers to public prosecutors on a man who filed a false
theft report immediately after his motorcycle was given a parking ticket on
suspicion he violated the Road Traffic Law.
This is the first case in which
the law is being applied to illegal parking.
According to MPD officials, at
about noon on May 31, the man, a part-time worker, parked his motorcycle on a
sidewalk in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. About two hours after a parking ticket was
attached to his motorcycle, he reported to a police box near his home that his
number plate had been stolen.
Afterward, he submitted a
report saying the stolen number plate must have been used on the motorcycle
ticketed for illegal parking.
Since the report was submitted
immediately after the ticket was issued, police suspected the man was lying.
When the Public Safety Commission demanded an explanation from the man, he
apparently lied again, saying he had god rid of his motorcycle.
When police looked into the
matter they found he was riding a motorbike bearing the number plate he said had
been stolen.
The man then told police he
could not afford to pay the 9,000 yen fine.
As his repeated filing of false
reports was judged to be a malicious violation of the law, police sent papers on
the man to public prosecutors in November.
On Feb. 4, the Tokyo Summary
Court imposed a 100,000 yen fine on the man.
The revised Road Traffic Law,
which came into force in June 2006, stipulates that if drivers of illegally
parked vehicles do not report to police, penalties can be imposed by police on
the owners of the vehicles.
However, the owners are given
the opportunity to explain the parking violation. If their explanations are
deemed acceptable, the parking fines can be dropped.
This has led some Web sites to
advise car owners to avoid fines by filing false theft reports or claiming they
left their car keys inside their locked cars.
Last year, the MPD discovered
that the explanations of more than 20 people were based on lies and fined them.
An MPD official said police
would investigate people trying to avoid due parking fines and prosecute
offenders under the Road Traffic Law to ensure honest drivers would not feel
"they were being made fools of."
Source: [ yomiuri ]
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