A New York City driver on the Upper East Side is warning others to check their E-ZPass accounts after recently being hit with a $45 toll for a trip into the congestion zone in Midtown Manhattan.

“My first reaction was, ‘What happened here?'” Dylan Yen, 24, told the New York Post. “Of course, with congestion pricing basically being the talk of the town, everybody knows it’s $9 – but why am I being charged $45.04?”

Yen told the outlet that if he hadn’t checked the app Tuesday morning, he “would’ve never known” he had been charged the excessive amount and suspects that others accounts may have been similarly debited.

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