Full list of Lagos State new traffic offences and their fines

This online newspaper understands that after working so hard or taking a loan to acquire a car, the last thing one would want is to watch the car being auctioned off at a ridiculous price to some stranger who doesn’t know what you passed through to get the car. But that can only happen if one violates any of the many traffic rules in Lagos State. Please try anything possible to obey the below new Traffic rules for the state and its management is not joking this time,

• Smoking while driving – N30,000/Impound vehicle.
• Physically assault traffic officer – N50,000/6 months in prison.
• Driving without full light – N50,000.
• Driving with worn-out tyres – N30,000.
• Driving without a spare tyre – N30,000
• Driving smoking vehicle – N30,000
• No fire extinguisher – N30,000
• Broken windscreen – N30,000
• Tinted windscreen – N30,000
• Eating and driving with one hand – 3 months in prison.
• One-way driving – 3 years in prison
• Driving without fastening seat belt – N30,000
• Not painting a commercial vehicle the approved colour – N50,000
• No car hire service permit – 1st 20,000; 2nd N30,000, Impound vehicle
• Parking on the yellow line on any public highway/illegal parking – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
• Vehicle crossing double yellow line/centre line – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000.
• Staying within the yellow junction box (offside rule) – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
• Failure to yield to the right of the way of a pedestrian at a zebra crossing – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000
• Failure to give to traffic on the left at a roundabout – 1st N20,000; subsequent N30,000.
• Driving on walkway or kerb – Impound
• Reversing on the highway & parking on walkways – 50,000 naira
• Obstruction of traffic -20,000 naira
• Picking/Dropping passengers on illegal B/stop -50,000 naira
• Driving on BRT lanes – 70,000 naira.