SMS your traffic fine

15 May 2011 09:53 pm

A leading bank and a mobile company would introduce a technology when one was charged with traffic law violation could pay the fine through his/her mobile phone, sources said.

Informed sources told Daily Mirror said any one charged with a traffic law violation could SMS the bank asking it to credit the amount specified as the fine to the post office account from his account.

“Taking the ticket and paying the fine to the post office and then going and collecting your driving license will be a thing in the past,” an informed source who is playing an active role in introducing the new technology said.

This would another technology driven changes with regard to motor traffic in Sri Lanka after the introduction of the CCTVs in Colombo in December last year. (Yohan Perera)