Clampdown on vehicles with irregular foreign number plates
A number of irregular foreign number-plated vehicles were clamped during the weekend as Transport Malta embarked on a drive to stem abuse.
A legal notice enacted recently enabled Transport Malta to re-introduce clamping in Malta, a tool that will greatly help the authority to enforce the rule of law on our roads.
Despite "numerous" roadside checks by Transport Malta and the police, a number of individuals abused the system by keeping vehicles with irregular number plates on the roads, parking irregularly, causing obstruction and possibly causing accidents that could not be traced back to the perpetrator. The authorities had no way of tracing the owners of foreign-plate-vehicles in
The authorities had no way of tracing the owners of foreign-plate-vehicles in case of minor offences, TM said.
Transport Malta will be doing random patrols on foreign-plate-vehicles and follow up on reports to curtail abuses.
Officials will clamp irregular cars and affix a sticker with information. The owner can call a phone number and an official will remove the clamps upon a payment of a fee of €180. If the owner does not reclaim the vehicle it will be towed and additional fees will apply.
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