Penny Bradley has received 14 speeding fines in the mail since mid-August, with one alleging her stationwagon reached more than 160km/h on a Canberra road.
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But the mother-of-two, who lives north of Yass in NSW, has a fair reason for returning the notices back unpaid: her car was stolen 20 minutes before it was first snapped on a speed camera.
Ms Bradley has been given a rare insight into the movements of her car's apparent thief, thanks to the fines detailing the time and locations it has been captured speeding.
She was visiting her in-laws in August when she last saw the Volkswagen Passat, parking it on their Latham driveway overnight.
When she woke up the next morning, the car was gone, along with an iPad and two child seats inside. The only item since recovered was Ms Bradley's licence, which was dumped in Kingston about a week later.
A few weeks later, Ms Bradley received the first fine in the mail. It showed the car was captured speeding on Hindmarsh Drive at 9.20pm on the night of the theft, just 20 minutes after Ms Bradley last saw it parked outside.
"It was very ballsy; we would have been home, the lights would have been on and the car was stolen from the driveway," she said.
"They knocked over a tree on the way out."
Since then, the speeding fines have continued to stream through, mostly from the area between Tuggeranong and Woden.
The majority were recorded on cameras along Hindmarsh Drive and the Tuggeranong Parkway in the early morning between 2.30am and 6.30am.
"It's almost like this person is using it to go to work, or at least using it on a regular basis, on a regular route," Ms Bradley said.
One photo requested from the moment of a speed camera capture shows the driver wearing a hood, but their sex has not been confirmed.
Ms Bradley and her family have borrowed a car since the theft, but she said she was starting to look for a new car rather than waiting for the old one to be returned.
"Had we got it back in the first week I would have been rejoicing," she said.
"Now you feel there's something unsettling about driving a car and putting your children in a car where you don't know what's happened or whether it's still safe. Has it been driven in a reckless way? Could it break down?"
While she said her "heart sinks" upon receiving another fine in the mail, Ms Bradley wanted to continue to receive them out of curiosity about her car's location.
"The mind boggles that someone will steal your car and continue to use it in a very illegal way; it's like something from the movies," she said.
"I would like it back, but I'd more like people to be aware that it's around."
The white 2011 model Volkswagen Passat has NSW registration CEQ18H.
Police are investigating the theft, with radars capable of identifying whether a car has been reported stolen.
Anyone with information that could help the investigation can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
