Sale Of License Plate Covers To Avoid Cameras On Toll Systems

Oshawa -A Whitby man was arrested and charged with fraud after marketing covers for vehicle license covers that would assist evasion of toll cameras.

The license covers would obscure the license plates of vehicles, making the photography of the licenses impossible. This would allow evasion of the toll or tax on each vehicle passing through certain toll stations on areas Canadian roadways.

Edward Cunningham, age 56 years faces two counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud as well as several other charges under the Canadian Highway Traffic Act.

Province highways make it illegal to obscure or cover license plates for the purpose of evasion of tolls or vehicle charges.

Drivers have in past times attempted to cover their license plates with snow, mud, paper or even by dropping down the tailgate on pickup trucks.

Each of these methods are illegal, as was this newest method of covering the license plate purposely with covers.

Different customers of the Markham area business were illegally sold the prohibited covers and told how to use them to evade and prevent the highway identification of their vehicles.

The highway operators cannot charge vehicles or bill drivers for roadway use without being able to identify the vehicles.