Top 10 received:
10 - No crash helmet - 200 baht + no fine for a further 24 hours if receipt retained for original fine
9 - Speeding - 200 baht (half the time yes was speeding and half no)
8 - Overtaking (this is good one because i was told i should have overtaken on the inside) - 200b
7 - Temporary Red No. plates (issued by the main dealer whilst waiting for permanent ones) - 200b
6 - No seat belt, 2 persons, 500b
5 - Whilst on holiday in phuket, 2 rented motorbikes, mum and dad on one, me my wife and little one on second - no thai driving licenses for motorcycles - 1600b (800b each!)
4 - Driving down a bus lane in bangkok - 500b
3 - No tax (in a rented car) - 500b (refunded by rental co.)
2 - English driving licence - 200b
1. No reason at all (tea money) - 200b

Thank you to all of you who are posting useful information.
Please continue to add your traffic experiences to this thread.

beer monkey wrote:

saint wrote:pretty stupid thing to do in my book .

yes that is pretty poor Mr Natural.

Well thanks for THAT.

My question was what have you paid in traffic fines, NOT what do you think of running red lights! I thought it would be good to share useful information on the cost of fines since I hear falangs complaining that they think they are taken advantage of in these situations and are given a higher fine.

Posts about parking and other traffic laws are good information to share as well.

Since two of our high volume posters are so concerned that they feel the need to scold me, I will elaborate:

I was ticketed at a T-intersection going south on Udon Dutsadi road at Ban Chaing Road just past the Siri Grand hotel. If you observe the flow of traffic at a T-intersection you will see that it is the norm for motorbikes to hug the shoulder and not stop for the red light.

I'm not saying this is the right, legal, or safe thing to do. I use to always stop until I was rear-ended by another motorbike after stopping at an T-intersection just like this! (no police around that time, the guy picked up his bike and took off!)

So, when I come to a red light at a T-intersection I take the following precautions:
1.Look in the mirror to see if theirs another bike is following me too close.
2. Slow down and observe the traffic turning onto the road.
3. Hug the shoulder and slowly proceed.

I'll now add to that step 4. Look ahead for guy's wearing brown shirts!

On second thought, since I don't want to get hit again nor get another fine, maybe the best maneuver would be to go up on the sidewalk!

Seriously, I'm not a kamikaze driver. My kids tell me I drive like the grand marshal in a thanksgiving day parade!

Maybe from your experience Mr natural, it may be a good idea for you to ditch the bike and opt for something with four wheels on the ground

Mr Natural wrote:Thank you to all of you who are posting useful information.
Please continue to add your traffic experiences to this thread.

beer monkey wrote:

saint wrote:pretty stupid thing to do in my book .

yes that is pretty poor Mr Natural.

Well thanks for THAT.

My question was what have you paid in traffic fines, NOT what do you think of running red lights! I thought it would be good to share useful information on the cost of fines since I hear falangs complaining that they think they are taken advantage of in these situations and are given a higher fine.

Posts about parking and other traffic laws are good information to share as well.

Since two of our high volume posters are so concerned that they feel the need to scold me, I will elaborate:

Woooo don't get your knickers in a twist, and not sure why a 'high volume poster' comes into it, if someone with 17 posts said what we did would you have replied the same to them..?.......with the original post you stated simply 'you run a red light'..(Jumped)

I recently was fined 400 baht for running a red light on my motorbike. Just wondering if that is the normal fine for that violation.

Maybe some of us have had experiances with drivers that jump a red, and your post brought those thoughts to the surface, now we read a little more into it , it kinda paints a slightly different picture...but the end result is You run a red light.
If the fine was 3000 baht or more maybe some light jumpers would think twice about doing it.

Two weeks ago, I had to wait 2 minutes for a friend to come back from a shop, had stopped my car next to a motosai, not far from the policestation. Technically I parked dubble or one and a half.
Had the engine running, ready to pull of.
Alas, a policetruck stopped and I had to hand over my drivers licence, got it back when I paid 500 baht and they were merciless.

A friend of mine was doing 140 km/hr in a truck recently and got of with 100 baht.

Heres a good one happened on the BKK Expressway last October.A lone cop waved me over to the side as i cleared a toll booth, in the pickup were my mate & his wife on holiday from UK, Tgf & me,i opened the window & he & Tgf entered into a lengthy conflab about what a falang was doing driving a truck with Udon reg plates in BKK ,explination accepted [on holiday].NEXT,show driving licence[valid Thai licence,accepted but did not return it].NEXT proceded to inspect ins, tax,& ownership book[accepted all in order].Hes now looking well p*ssed & started to do a tour of inspection 2 laps & he came back with a triumphant look,now another lengthy conflab took place & concluding with Tgfs explaination to me!!!!!! I have to pay a fine of 200Bht for -------wait for it--------

An uncovered & insecure load ie. 2 humongous suitcases that an olympic weight lifter would have struggled with.

Doing all i could not to burst out laughing in his face i paid up[no receipt offered]repossessed my licence & away we
went i couldnt speak for 10 mins i laughed so much at cheek of it


So remember the BiB motto-------Where theres a will[200Bht]theres a way