CYBERJAYA: A total of 4.03 million of outstanding Automated Enforcement System (AES) summonses, worth RM605mil, issued from 2012 to Aug 31 this year, have been cancelled, says Anthony Loke.
The Transport Minister said based on records at the Road Transport Department’s Digital Technology Division data centre, all the summonses issued for breaking speed limits and running red lights, had already been written off.
“This means AES summonses issued before Sept 1 are no longer in the data,” he told reporters after visiting the centre here yesterday.
On Aug 17, Loke announced the government’s decision to write off all outstanding AES summonses issued during the period.
He said this was due to the fact that the government did not receive any revenue from the summonses, following the biased agreement between the previous government and two concessionaires operating the system.
Loke said from Sept 1 up to Nov 8, a total of 60,444 AES summonses had been issued for breaking the speed limit but only 1,711 had been settled by motorists.
For the same period, he said, 4,575 summonses were issued for running the red lights but only 167 summonses were paid.
“To date, 1,190 cases have been brought to courts in Kedah, Perak and Penang but only three offenders turned up,” he said.
He said the department would take stern action against those who failed to pay the summonses within 60 days by taking them to court, failing which warrants of arrest would be issued against them.
