Traffic violations: fines and your rights to object and pay

Traffic violations under the Saudi Traffic Law carry a fine between a minimum and maximum set by their table, and you may object in the competent court within 30 days of notice. After that you pay within 15 days or ask for up to 90; fines may be paid in instalments and reduced by up to 25% of the minimum.

Steps

1. Violation tables: the Traffic Law sets each violation's fine by its table: Table 1, 500 to 900 riyals or impounding the vehicle with the fine; Table 2, 300 to 500 riyals or impounding the vehicle with the fine; Table 3, 150 to 300 riyals; Table 4, 100 to 150 riyals.
2. Table 5, 1,000 to 2,000 riyals; Table 6, 3,000 to 6,000 riyals with the vehicle impounded until the violation is removed; Table 7, 5,000 to 10,000 riyals with the vehicle impounded until the violation is removed.
3. Speeding has Table 8: on a road with a limit of 120 km/h or less, exceeding it by more than 10 up to 20 km/h is fined 150 to 300 riyals, and exceeding it by more than 50 km/h is fined 1,500 to 2,000 riyals.
4. Drifting (tafheet) is a traffic violation: the first time, the vehicle is impounded for 15 days with a fine of 20,000 riyals, then the case goes to the competent court to consider prison, and the penalty is heavier the second and third time.
5. Right to object: you may object to the violation before the competent court within 30 days of the date you were notified of it, and the court may hear your objection after that period if you give an excuse it accepts. The steps are on the Dalni page on objecting to traffic violations in Absher.
6. Payment period: if the objection period passes without an objection, your objection is rejected, or the court changes the fine, pay it within 15 days; within that time you may ask for a grace period of no more than 90 days.
7. If you do not pay in time: the balances of your bank accounts may be seized and enforced on directly, except for the violations the Ministry of Interior, in agreement with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministerial Committee for Traffic Safety, excludes from this.
8. Instalments and reduction: the fine for a single violation may be paid in parts, and may be reduced by no more than 25% of its minimum, under rules set by the Minister of Interior in agreement with the Minister of Finance.
9. Accumulated violations: if your unpaid fines reach 20,000 riyals or more, or 6 months pass from notification of the violation without payment, you are told to pay within no more than 30 days, after which you may be referred to the competent court to consider suspending all or some of the public services provided to you until you pay.
10. Repeating a dangerous violation: if you commit a violation that endangers public safety a second time within a year of the first, the maximum fine applies. A third time within the same year, you are referred to the competent court to consider prison of no more than one year.
11. Points: each violation carries a number of points according to how dangerous it is, recorded on your record, and your driving licence is withdrawn when you exceed the maximum number of points allowed.