Salem: City traffic police officials have fined a motorist Rs 2,700 for crossing Five Roads area on a bike without wearing helmet 27 times in the past 15 days.
One of the officials identified the traffic rule violator as Thangarasu, of Karuppur. “Employed with a private hospital in the city, he has to pass through the Five Roads area, where we have installed automatic number-plate recognition cameras, to reach the workplace and return home. We got his contact details by tracking his vehicle registration number.”
The officer said while Thangarasu had received a number of e-challans on his mobile phone from the regional transport office for the traffic rule violation, the latter had ignored them. “We have warned him not to ride two-wheeler without wearing helmet and asked him to pay the fine at the earliest.”
The Salem city police had installed 20 automatic number-plate recognition cameras on Five Roads area in the city at a cost of Rs9 lakh on December 1, 2020.
“We have booked 40,815 people with the help of these cameras for violating traffic rules and regulations since then,” said a senior police officer with the traffic wing. “However, only 4,072 of them have paid the fine till date.”