The owner of a motorcycle received a fine of R$ 195.23 for not wearing a seat belt while driving the vehicle on the MG-184 highway, in the municipality of Alterosa, in the south of Minas Gerais. However, the transport does not have a seat belt, the driver and the car have not been in the city.
The bike has license plates from Toledo, in the west of the Paraná, where the owner, Armando Simonatto, and his family live. The distance between the city of Paraná and the city of Minas Gerais is more than a thousand kilometers.
Dileta Simonatto, Armando’s wife, told g1 that the traffic notification arrived from the Department of Highways of the State of Minas Gerais (DER-MG).
In addition to the cash fine, 5 points were applied to the National Driver’s License (CNH) of the owner of the motorcycle.
“Her only commute is four kilometers a day, during the week, when my husband goes to work. He leaves the house and walks two kilometers and at night he comes home for another two kilometers. This is the route of this motorcycle, since 2018, it has never left here in the community”, says Dileta.
What now?
Dileta reports that she will contest the fine and regularize the situation. She also says she is afraid that she is the victim of a scam or that the vehicle has been cloned.
“We can’t keep quiet when this kind of thing happens. A lot of people go there and pay the fine and that’s it, because they don’t want to waste time, but I’ll go after it. If I was wrong, that’s fine, but we’re not wrong. We barely left the house with this bike, right? So there’s no way she’s going somewhere else, in another state,” she tells g1.
DER-MG
In a note, the DER-MG recommended that people can file an appeal, as provided for in the Brazilian Traffic Code (CTB).
“This can be done in the first communication that the owner receives (notice of fine) and later in the second communication (notice of penalty),” the department told g1.
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