HOW TO GET OFF YOUR SPEEDING FINES LEGALLY!

This book is an endeavour to assist decent, honest people who find that their livelihoods are at risk because the Metro police are more interested in targeting speeding motorists in order to take advantage of the revenue brought in by fines. I think that far more attention should be given to stamping out serious criminal activity such as hijacking, drunk driving and wanton reckless driving. In particular, they should be policing the scourge of unlicensed and unroadworthy taxis that blatantly flout traffic rules and endanger other road users, significantly more than the average motorist who is driving a few kilometres over the limit.
We as South Africans are tired of the corruption, double dealing and the extraction of easy revenue from the motorist by traffic authorities.

After being involved in traffic policing for 37 years, I retired as Chief Provincial Inspector in the Road Traffic Inspectorate in1999 and moved back to Gauteng. I became aware of the malicious greed and deception by the malevolent dictatorship of the Metro Police and how the motorist has evolved into easy revenue for the various municipalities and government. I decided then, that something needed to be done. I decided I was time to write a book to enlighten the average motorist of his rights when 'caught' speeding. The outcome of this was this manual which later became a CD. (The one you are reading now!)

Since then I have been consulted by countless victims of this undemocratic and unjust exercise. I have always held the opinion that, when decisions were made to prosecute motorists, the Metro police had to prove the offence beyond all reasonable doubt - and that they also had to use a certain amount of discretion and commonsense. This was done in my day through dealing with motoring offenders by giving advice, warnings, or as a last resort prosecution. A positive impression was generally made, but now, it seems that those basic principles are being blatantly ignored in the pursuit of easy revenue accumulation.
The speed camera system is inconsistently and arbitrarily set by the Metro Police with the assistance of the judiciary. This is a contemptuous ploy by the Government to mass prosecute minor infringements. This is unacceptable as speed cameras actually do little to make our roads safer.
The irresponsible placing of speed cameras for income generation has been a highly effective means of seriously eroding public support for the Metro police.

Their benefits are strictly limited to speeding offences and do nothing to tackle the array of other dangerous driving offences that speed cameras are not able to determine.
If the Government was even remotely interested in road safety, it would invest far more of the excruciating levels of tax it extracts from speeding fines into the road system. Instead, we are forced to endure countless and increasingly dangerous road surfaces, neglected road signs and ridiculous levels of congestion that seem to have been deliberately engineered into our transport system. With speed cameras, the authorities have simply created another dangerous hazard. Where people are unfamiliar with an area, they now spend far too much time with their eyes off the road looking at their speedometer, and this has undoubtedly led to an increase in accidents. Straying over the limit by a few kilometres per hour does not make a bad driver. Poor governmental policy does!

- Dennis Jackson

Martin Wyndham - The Editor of the Melville Times:

I applaud Dennis Jackson's new publication. It is encouraging to see that someone has chosen to speak out for the motorist's rights. I am in total agreement with his sentiments.

I personally feel that this book by Dennis Jackson is a very welcome weapon in the fight against the deceitful, unfair and sometimes even illegal methods used by the various traffic departments. The book even talks about the way in which cameras and speed machines can be manipulated by dishonest law enforcement officials.

The contents of this book have personally saved me an incredible amount of time and money. More importantly the manual exposes the way in which the system is being manipulated to the benefit of government, but has extremely little to do with road safety. I am convinced that speed trapping is definitely more about revenue income than safety.

I would like to publicly thank Mr. Jackson for his ongoing quest to bring some rectitude back into traffic enforcement. Hiding behind bushes raking in easy money has gone on long enough. He has now enabled the average motorist to gain some much needed knowledge about his or her constitutional rights and to have some recourse against the mendacious double-dealing by our Traffic Law Enforecement Agencies.

It is now imperative that Metro and other traffic departments across South Africa get on with the business of saving lives in earnest and stop fleecing the public of money that could be better spent elsewhere. This is a very comprehensive manual and I am sure that it is bound to create a much needed groundswell in South African Speed Enforcement.

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Jan - Motorcycle Club:

This manual contains all the legal information in regard to the rules governing the implementation of Speed Law Enforcement. It enables you to ensure that when you are accused of a speeding, the prosecution against you is absolutely legal and correct and that the laid down requirements pertaining to speed trapping were all correctly in place and if not, how to get off! It also talks about unfair practice by the traffic cops themselves!

It's written by a retired ex cop who knows all the loopholes and is willing to share them with you. It gives you everything you need to know about speed traps and roadside arrests for non payment of fines! It shows you how some of the traps are totally illegal! I have successfully used this manual to get off four of my speeding fines! This book can save you a lot of hard earned money! I paid R200 for it and it gave me some good laughs as well.

Excellent book, lots of info, well worth it!

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Ed Hallibrand - Mechanical Engineer:

Hello Dennis,
Congrats on your wonderful book! I have employed the book successfully on a number of occasions. Thank you so much. It really did help!

I wonder if Mr Wayne Minaar, our Traffic Chief and spokesman is able to answer these and other pertinent questions?
Metro Traffic seem to be mostly liased, vacist and a law unto themselves.
1. Why do they only speed trap in white areas & suburbs?
2. Why are they ignoring the huge volumes of un-roadworthy taxies and trucks on the road?
3. Why do they ignore overloaded taxies & trucks?
4. Why are they so intent on busting bikers & sports cars?
5. Why are our speed limits so ridiculously slow?
6. Why is it always assumed that speed kills?
7. Are taxies & trucks not able to speed?
8. Don't people still die in accidents occuring at lower speeds?
This is not about traffic safety & law... This is about making easy money for the Government!
If our police force was as good as our Metro Traffic cops, there wouldn't be any more violent crime! Rape, murder, etc does not bring an income as lucrative as speed traps!
If our Metro Police force were more interested in policing and enforcing the law instead of chasing revenue, we would have a safer country to live in!

Your book is excellent! It's a welcome necessity!

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Eddie Vosloo:

This publication should be part of every fleet manager's "tool kit".

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Blog Comments: from various people about the book

Dennis Jackson is the man lawyers consult when they don't know how to win a traffic case against laser speed trap devices.

After retiring in 1989 after 37 years in traffic law enforcement, Jackson has been helping motorists win their cases in court against unfair speeding fines for over 15 years now and has assisted companies and corporations and the police themselves when they have fallen foul of overzealous Metro Traffic Police.

He has appeared many times on TV shows such as Carte Blanche, Special assignment and various radio talk shows including The Redi Direco show on 702, SA-FM, RSG, Classic FM and Radio Islam. He has written articles for major newspapers and magazines and given talks to large transport companies and many car clubs to assist drivers on how to play the game and keep their licences given the current entrapment policies of the Metro Traffic Police throughout South Africa.

The company can even take on the responsibility of acting as Proxy for company vehicles.
Their fees are a fraction of what attorneys charge and they can save you an inordinate amount of hard earned money.

To book Dennis for a Consultation (charged by hour) email us: admin@speedfinesolutions.co.za