I was fined in a place I've never been to. What to do?

Imagine receiving a fine notification at your home or an alert via the Digital Traffic Card app, about a traffic violation that you didn't commit, that occurred in a place you don't even know and you've never been in your vehicle . This type of situation is much more common than you might think and I dare say that it must certainly be happening somewhere in Brazil right now while you are reading this article. Your reaction when you become aware of an alleged infraction that you are unaware of is logically not the best, and you immediately start to believe that your vehicle may have been cloned. Know that the probability of it being a clone is very remote, and you are about to find out in this article. To appeal your traffic fine, revocation of your driver's license / PPD or suspension of your right to drive, CLICK HERE and speak to specialist João Paulo Macedo. Firstly, you need to understand that, in order to detect the majority of infractions, traffic legislation allows the traffic agent to issue an AIT (Traffic Infraction Notice) without the need to approach the vehicle.



Examples of some of these infractions are: Driving without wearing a seat belt, talking, holding or using a cell phone, running red traffic lights, overtaking prohibited, vehicle with expired license, loud sound, dangerous maneuver, etc. Some infractions depend on verification using metrological equipment . An example of this is the infraction for “traffic above the permitted speed”, the verification of which depends on the installation and operation of speed Europe Mobile Number List meters, popularly known as “radars”, which record the image of the vehicle that exceeds the speed limit regulated for the road. , without the need for an eventual approach. In the situations described above, although it is possible to verify it without approaching the vehicle, there is something that we can call “human error”, not intentional, but due to mere inattention or negligence. For example: When the traffic agent catches the commission of an infraction, even if it is impossible to approach, due to the principle of legality, he must take measures such as drawing up the respective AIT, as determined by the Brazilian Traffic Code.







The event of an infraction provided for in traffic legislation, an infraction notice will be drawn up , which will include: The fact is that, due to not proceeding with the approach, many agents write down the aforementioned license plates for later drawing up the AIT, and that is where a whole problem arises resulting from the so-called “human error”. They do not always make sure that they have correctly noted the license plate , nor any other element (e.g. brand, model, color, species, etc.) that allows the conviction that it is the same vehicle caught in the commission of the infraction. To make things a little more complicated, many traffic agencies use the electronic ticket book to prepare their Traffic Infraction Reports , which is software developed to facilitate inspection and which, when entering the characters on the license plate, the system automatically fills in the others vehicle data , with the agent only having to validate it. This means that if in fact he only wrote down the license plate, without taking care to check other elements, the chance of this infraction falling on another vehicle is enormous , and that is exactly what happens every day. In the case of infractions detected by equipment called “radars”, human error is also present.