A man who refused to pay a measly $46 speeding fine has ended up racking thousands of dollars worth of debt.
In 2016, Peter Prescott received a speeding ticket ordering him to pay $46 (translated to USD) for driving 64km/h in a 50km/h zone. However, he failed to pay the ticket and insisted that he wasn’t driving the car and the car in question wasn’t his.
After Prescott didn’t pay up, the matter was taken to court and when he didn’t turn up to the hearing, Prescott was fined another $46 and was told to pay $17.50 in court fees.
Fast forward two years and Prescott, from New Zealand, still hadn’t paid the fines he was facing. He tried to appeal them but the appeal was unsuccessful, sparking him to seek a judicial review of that decision.
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