<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Oct 18, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Police nab more jaywalkers <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Lester Kok
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Pedestrians caught disregarding basic safety rules have been issued composition fines of $20. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->JAYWALKERS, beware.
The police, who have stepped up enforcement, issued 6,200 summonses in the first nine months of this year - 900 more than in the corresponding nine months last year.
Pedestrians caught disregarding basic safety rules have been issued composition fines of $20.
On a recent morning, the police, who were looking out for offenders in front of the MRT station along Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4, nabbed 15 in five minutes.
One jaywalker, a student in his 20s who declined to be named, was unhappy about being fined. 'It is kind of lame because there were no cars,' he said.
However, Mr Rezha Pratama, 25, an information technology officer, was sheepish about being caught dashing across the road. He said of the fine: 'It is okay, it was my fault anyway.'
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Police nab more jaywalkers <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Lester Kok
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --><TR vAlign=bottom><TD width=330>
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Pedestrians caught disregarding basic safety rules have been issued composition fines of $20. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->JAYWALKERS, beware.
The police, who have stepped up enforcement, issued 6,200 summonses in the first nine months of this year - 900 more than in the corresponding nine months last year.
Pedestrians caught disregarding basic safety rules have been issued composition fines of $20.
On a recent morning, the police, who were looking out for offenders in front of the MRT station along Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4, nabbed 15 in five minutes.
One jaywalker, a student in his 20s who declined to be named, was unhappy about being fined. 'It is kind of lame because there were no cars,' he said.
However, Mr Rezha Pratama, 25, an information technology officer, was sheepish about being caught dashing across the road. He said of the fine: 'It is okay, it was my fault anyway.'
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
