SYDNEY, Australia - More than 200 Australian motorists have avoided parking and speeding fines by blaming either a dead man or an interstate resident for their errors in what police said Saturday may be a widespread fraud.
Under New South Wales state law, if a car owner signs a sworn statement that they were not driving the vehicle when an offense was committed, they can avoid paying speed camera fines, which arrive by mail, and parking tickets left under windshield wipers.
A recent government audit of the excuses given in those sworn statements revealed that 238 motorists had blamed one of two people - a dead man who had, when alive, lived in Sydney and a person living …
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