PAS Encik Helped My Colleague Settled His Traffic Summon in JB
I was surprised to hear from my colleague that an Encik from PAS actually helped him to settled his RM300 traffic summon gotten in JB. This is how the story goes…
How he gotten the summon?
On 19th May, Vesak Day in Singapore, 4 of us, including my this colleague, K, and me, went to Malacca for a 1 day trip. K was the driver, driving his Singapore-registered car. K is a SPR from Malaysia.
We enjoyed our trip in Malacca very much. The food, the people were just great. It was about 9pm when we exited from North South Highway, arriving at Johor Bahru. We were expecting that it would be traffic jam but did not realize that it was so jialat. The traffic was very very slow after we just past Tampoi Giant. It was basically crawling at the Econ Shopping Mall building. When we reached the current Danga City Mall (last time deserted one), K received an SMS from his friend who just drove past Singapore custom. The friend said he had been stuck in the jam for 4 hours! We were stunt upon hearing that. So, we decided not to waste our time in the jam, but find our way out of it 1st.
We made an illegal U-turn at point A. Then we towards point B direction, only to find that it was a dead end. Basically we were trapped between the Jalan Tun Abdul Razak and railway. Many vehicles were in the same situation like us also. K decided to try his luck and drove in reversed direction towards Danga City Mall. In the dark, from somewhere under the shade, 2 traffic policemen suddenly came out and stopped us, together with a few other vehicles. We fell into the trap set-up… The TP did not ask for money but just K’s license, and issued a summon straightaway. RM300! Upon asked by K, the TP said that the jam already started at 3pm in the afternoon. I wonder how many summons they had issued since afternoon.
We were at fault. That’s for sure. But we were really unhappy with the way being set up.
How K get contacted by PAS encik
K was very unhappy. After we were back in Singapore, K sent out a few emails to Malaysia local newspapers and opposition parties to complaint about this incident. Of cause the letter wasn’t published on newspapers. However, he gotten an email from a gmail account. The person was saying that he could help K, and left K a handphone number. K called, and a meet-up was arranged during the past weekend.
Whom K saw was a very friendly and kind looking Malay elder encik with a songkok. The encik told K that he could help K to talk to the TP officer, but K must keep quiet all the time. So they went to the TP office together. The encik at first talked to the young lady on duty for about 45 minutes, and he basically talked about everything. Then the lady let them go in to talk to another officer. The officer seemed a high rank one. Then encik talked to him with another 30 minutes. Finally, the officer told encik that he would settle the summon.
When they came out from the room, the lady went in. Then came out again and said the summon had been discounted to RM100! Not a bad deal huh?
K paid up, and gotten his receipt. The encik later told him that he must keep the receipt. If in the future same thing happens again, then he can use the receipt to appeal.
All the while, the encik only told K that he is from PAS. He never mentioned his name, nor he mentioned his rank or anything. He just ask K to spread the words, if K’s friends experience anything in JB and need help, let him know. Maybe he, or PAS can help.
Wow, learnt something this time……
July 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hi, can you also share how to contact this encik? Last weekend, I kena a speeding summon say that I was travelling at 121km/h at a limit of 110km/h.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Dexter,
Let me check with my friend, then I will email you.