KOTA KINABALU: No time to sit for driving tests. It’s a troublesome process. These were among the excuses given by about 23,000 motorists found without a driving licence during a nationwide operation by the Road Transport Department (JPJ).
A total of 23,748 notices were issued to road users for the offence during the 14-day Ops Patuh Bersepadu, said senior enforcement director Datuk Lokman Jamaan.
The offence was the highest traffic violation detected by the JPJ during the operation which ended on Friday, he said.
“We inspected 554,372 vehicles throughout the exercise,” he told reporters during a JPJ operation in Likas here yesterday.
Most of the offenders involved motorists between the ages of 15 and 35.
“We also issued 17,447 notices for having expired road taxes and 13,857 notices for vehicles found not having insurance.
“Other notices were for technical offences (12,191), no vocational driving licences (4,902) and overloaded vehicles (2,329),” Lokman said.
He said other main offences were linked to queue cutting, beating the red light, using mobile phones while driving and not putting on seat belts, among other wrongs.
Action was also taken against 4,797 foreigners for various traffic offences, he said.
Lokman said they were also focused on the enforcement of rules regarding the modification of vehicles not according to the approved technical standard.
