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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/05/02/dc-traffic-tickets-driving-penalties/[/url]

[b]More than 2,100 vehicles have at least 40 outstanding tickets, according to data from the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, and about 1,200 cars are linked to fines exceeding $20,000 over the past five years. Topping the list of offenders is a car with Maryland tags that has 339 outstanding tickets worth $186,000 in fines and penalties.[/b]

"Vehicles can rack up fines over years — which the car’s owner is responsible for paying — but the person or people driving those cars can keep their licenses if they do not pay."

[b]Since 2000, more than 3 million photo-issued tickets have gone unpaid in the city for a total of $840.8 million, which includes a doubling of original fines and a 20 percent collection fee applied to outstanding tickets. An additional 2.9 million parking tickets also have gone unpaid, for an extra $398 million in fines and penalties, DMV records show.[/b]

For now, the city relies on booting and towing vehicles in hopes that drivers will pay their ticket debts to recover their vehicle. [b]But with only four crews assigned to booting, officials said it is impossible to target high-risk drivers because city workers do not know their locations. Babers said it is likely that offenders “are aware that we boot and tow so they may then park the vehicle in a garage or on private property,” which is off-limits to city crews.[/b]

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Park on private property or in a garage?  In this city, that costs more than the damn tickets!  What is wrong with these a-hole scofflaws?[/quote]

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