Like so many others Martin Wohlfarter recently received a traffic fine with a picture of him supposedly speeding in a 80km zone on the N1 near the Huguenot tunnel.
But upon closer inspection, and triangulating the exact location of his bakkie at the position of an electricity mast and prominent rocks and boulders on the mountain ridge in the background he discovered that the actual point of capture was just after the 100km/hr sign post. He posted his discovery on social media and was flooded by others detailing the exact same experience. In doing so he might have unknowingly exposed a huge traffic fine scam in the western cape.
After posting photographic proof of his discovery tens of others responded saying they got fined in the exact same location indicating distance markers that were not in the correct zone. Some of the responders were Cantal Carstens; Craven Joubert; An-Ria Schreuder; Louis Cilliers; Klaus Pockpas; Rory Harrison; Pierre Schelhase;
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