I have had that done in Italy , hired a car got a speeding fine on the a5 out of Milan and a couple of months later they debited my card but they have your details so it was an easy fine to chase ! All the others never got followed up . regards Jay
Damn you and your answers! Well I stand by my point of cross border enforcement ..and my erm ...mates... five years of fine letters that never got followed up.
Last month a mate had a Swiss fine turn up in the post from when he was there in August . £857!!!. He's paid it ASAP .
I know for a fact that the French do not pursue UK vehicles. So most other Western Europe countries do? How does it work if you just ignore it? They can't add points to your licence and cannot enforce the fine if you are not in their country. Worried now as I thought France was typical of Europe!
I drove on Hungarian motorways without paying the electronic toll thinking they wouldn’t chase a UK car. The HU highways agency issued a fine and sold it to a UK debt collecting firm. I ignored their increasingly threatening letters and they stopped after 3 or 4 months. They had no power to enforce payment.
I don't believe so as I have set shit loads of cameras off all over France. I did that as recently as last September. We meet some French bikers and they confirmed that Brits get away with it. Well, I never heard anything...
I think Switzerland is a different kettle of Nitro. Speeding isn't a motoring offence its linked to criminal and I do believe they follow up. TB
Jesus, thats a bit keen. Now you tell us, just when I'm planning next years trip to the North Cape and coming back thru Finland to take a look at that balancing rock. Does this mean its not possible to make any "progress" when out in the sticks. TB
I am a French based biker and I would not be able to confirm that Brits get away with it, who were there super knowledgeable bikers that you met? I understand that an agreement was signed quite recently that allowed cross border fines to go to the UK.
Well I've no idea how knowledgeable they are but I never got fined. How does it work then if there is some cross-border agreement? You get a letter and ignore it. What happens next?
Not sure if Google is working on your computer, but I did the search for you. The first thing that I came up with was: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/what-is-the-eu-cross-border-enforcement-directive/
Search results are just that, A different search engine would not give a different RAC page telling you something else.
@Bob T thats the link I posted earlier and its the system we've already been discussing as it's been active for a good 18mths now. It's not going to mean anything whilst the laws between member states are an unequal playing field, or at least until they come to some agreement to make it enforceable: “Unfortunately the application of the directive is simply not practical. In the UK it is the driver of a speeding vehicle who receives penalty points whereas in France it is the vehicle’s registered keeper who is deemed to be responsible. ..... “And if a UK driver is caught speeding in France in a vehicle they are not the owner of, they too might get away with the fine as the registered keeper in the UK would be pursued by the French authorities to pay. "While the keeper can state in response they were not the driver, the big question is: will French authorities pursue and fine keepers who claim they weren’t driving at the time?" And thats assuming the letter got to you and you replied...
