Road tax, licence offences top list of CNY bookings

 

A total of 429,423 vehicles were checked and 724 seized during the Chinese New Year special operation. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: 

More than 107,000 notices were issued by the road transport department (JPJ) for various offences during the Chinese New Year special operation from Jan 20.

JPJ director-general Aedy Fadly Ramli said 429,423 vehicles were checked and 724 seized during the operation.

The most frequent offence was of expired road tax or the lack of insurance, comprising 29,994 cases, 20,414 cases of expired or lack of driving licence, and 15,610 cases of technical offences including those related to tyres and brakes.

Aedy noted that the number of notices issued had dropped by half from last year. - FMT