I got a Toll fine - better check yours.....

[Kryton]

In the mail on Friday, i received a letter from M2 Motorways stating that i had driven through a tollway and didnt pay.

Apparently i had driven through Pennant Rd On Ramp on April 9th.
Having been to Melbourne a bit this year (and not really knowing my way around that well), it was possible i had infact driven through it without even realising.
So, not really remembering being near Melbourne on that date and not knowing exactly where Pennant Rd On Ramp is (a few might have clicked by now), i turn to trusty old Google to show me where it is.

Pennant Rd On Ramp is somewhere in NSW, not Melbourne and certainly NOT in Victoria.
So, i give them a ring just to make sure, and sure enough, it is infact in NSW as i had thought.

SO, not having been to NSW in the last 20 years in any way, shape or form, and 20 years ago i was on a bus and didnt even have a car made in 2003, there was a bit of a problem.

I have written a Stat Dec so hopefully, this will be the end of it.

So, if i can be issued a fine from a state that I or my car have never set foot in, make sure you double check each and every Tollway notice you receive - just to be sure that it was infact correctly issued.

This also isnt the first time this has happened either.
Last December, i was issued a notice from a Tollway in Melbourne for a car that i had sold around a year and a half earlier.
Went and approached the new owner about the toll and questioned them as to why they never transferred the Rego (there was a thread about this), and they stated that the car had infact blown the engine around 8 months earlier and was sent to the Wreckers.

So, a trip out to the Wreckers confirms that it was true, it was sitting there in the paddock with a blown engine and number plates still attached to the car.
So, again, a car that isnt registered, cant be driven and has not left a paddock in the previous 8 months, some how managed to drive through a Tollway the other side of Melbourne.

So, check ALL Toll way fines issued to YOU.
Most people wouldnt even think twice if they lived in the city and used these roads often.