Acting Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo sent a strong message to speeders and other traffic violators on Bermuda?s roads in Magistrates? Court yesterday.

He fined Fay Ballard, 62, of Harbour Road, Paget, $1,000 for driving a car without third party insurance and $750 for the car being unlicenced.

Ballard admitted to the court that it was her ?mistake? as she was leaving the Island and was under the impression the car was licenced and insured up to that date.

?An expensive mistake,? Mr. Tokunbo replied.

He fined Tamell Talbot, 23, of Mullet Bay, St. George?s, $1,000, or 100 days default, for driving a motorcycle without third party insurance and $250, or 30 days default, for the motorcycle being unlicenced and gave Talbot until July 27 to pay the fine. Oman Franklin, 27, from Green Acres Road, Devonshire, was fined $300 for driving at 62 kph, while Haidera Mcilwain Joel, 33, of Tribe Road Number Six, was fined $400 for driving at 59 kph.

Ross Parsons, 33, currently at Westgate Correctional Facility, was fined $100, or ten days default, for driving without a licence on April 5 and $250, or 30 days default, for driving without a licence on April 8.

Parsons told Mr. Tokunbo that he only gets out of jail in November and wanted time to pay the two fines. Mr. Tokunbo gave him until December 16 to pay. Romel Woolridge, 38, of Devonshire, was fined $200 for speeding at 55 kph and $100 for driving without a licence on April 5 while Donna May Grant, 44, of Pembroke, was also fined $200 for speeding at 55 kph.