Number of fine-defaulters in 1 year doubled

Posted on 19-05-2014 at 7:55 pm by sir_smokalot – 31 Comments”

The betaalmoraal in the Netherlands, holt backwards, if the numbers are to be believed. In 2013, doubled the number of people that the judge had to appear, where uninsured driving is a popular fine.

Was published last year, 200,000 people with outstanding fines to the court, compared to roughly half the year before, reports the AD. The newspaper speculates that it is often not to unwillingness, but particularly the poorest people, who simply do not have the means to take a thick fine to tap.

Chances of getting caught

Is the poverty in the Netherlands suddenly increased significantly? There seems to be not directly on, we need this increase mainly search in the enlarged (registry)check. Since a couple of years, the systems of the Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer (RDW) is associated with which of the TO, which instantly print your side if your MOT has expired, or if you are uninsured around are driving. Especially that last tap really, up to 3 times a year, a fine of 390 euros. We this trend, incidentally, a year ago forms.

As soon as once a your urgent financial suituatie priceless penalty is the fence of the dam and makes it likely also not much matter whether there is a second or a third follows. Now I will from my couch might be simplistic thinking, but if you don’t have insurance, why drive? What does not work, that does not work, and there is always something else as the bicycle or public transport.

Of course, you have the urgent situations in which someone with a low wage by his work and times more or less forced a car to take, but these seem to be rather exceptions than the rule.

Anyway: the judges are getting more and more gijzelingsverzoeken in unpaid fines, but follow these usually not if it turns out that there is no question of unwillingness, but more of a hopeless situation. Is our system too hard for the poor and we have finally agreed on the income-related fine, or am a member of #TeamKoos and point you to this statement?