Woman fined RM700 for allowing underage son to drive her car

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A woman was fined RM700 by the Traffic Magistrate's Court in Seremban on Monday (Sept 9) after pleading guilty to a charge of allowing her 10-year-old son to drive her car which later got into an accident.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3vdwms3p  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A woman who allowed her 10-year-old son to drive a car which got into an accident last

00:07week was fined 700 ringgit by the traffic magistrate's court in Seremban on Monday.

00:14Magistrate Marlisa Mohamad Fahmy handed down the sentence after the 46-year-old accused

00:19pleaded guilty to committing the offence.

00:22The charge was under Section 39, Subsection 5 of the Road Transport Act 1987 which provides

00:29for a fine not exceeding 2,000 ringgit or a six-month jail term or both.

00:35The woman, who was unrepresented, pleaded for a lenient sentence, saying that she only

00:40earned 1,500 ringgit a month as a cleaner and has to support three school-going children.

00:47She was ordered to serve seven days in prison if she fails to pay the fine.

00:52It was reported that the boy went on a joyride in Taman Arowana Impian around 9pm on September

00:583.

00:59However, the car skidded and crashed into two parked vehicles.

01:03Police said the boy's nine-year-old neighbour was in the passenger seat at the time of the

01:07incident.

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