Car owners with blurred number plates will be prosecuted

JEDDAH: It is not uncommon to see cars with blurred number plates or without numbers at all.
While one might think that the goal is to avoid traffic fines, the main reason is that people who use cars with such numbers wish to commit, or have committed, robberies and crimes.
Spokesman for the General Directorate of Traffic, Lt. Col. Tariq Al-Rubaian said the police will arrest any person who vandalizes plates and check whether that person owes payment of fines or committed any crime using these cars. Al-Rubaian said that vandalizing plates is punishable by a double fine, which is partially traffic and partially criminal.
“Police will check with the different police centers in the city where the car was caught to see what violations were registered against a certain car,” he said.
“We seek to get data from the computer or the electric monitoring system that clarifies which cars with illegal plates or no plates committed violations or whether the driver has to pay fines, then the fine is transferred to the user or owner of the vehicle.”
Regards the new, stricter, punishments against drifting, Al-Rubaian said that the implementation is pending some technical measures, including the “re-programming of the new fines system at the national information center.”
He pointed out that each person arrested for drifting will face a different sentence, depending on past records and the existence of a driving license.
He added that the punishment of the drifter who uses his own car is different from the one meted out to someone who rents a vehicle for that purpose.