For those planning trips and planning routes, this site may be handy; radars.securite-routiere.gouv.fr By my understanding it is updated every two months. If you do not already know, national speed limit can also vary between departments...just to add interest!
Do they work now? Over the years, I've set off dozens and never heard a thing. An Austrian one did but only coz I was stopped a bit further on by the Police. They never saw the funny side and I tried to explain to them that they need to lighten up. I only spoke English and they may not of understood....
Probably not, but as I am living 'here' then these 'foreign' cameras are worth noting! Some folks may be wanting to return though and I am sure there will be a record somewhere ? Maybe I need to plan a hoon in the UK on one of my French plated motorcycles working on that logic...
I would "guess" that if you set off a UK speed camera with a French plate, then you would be OK, so like-wise in France with a UK plate.
I doubt there will be any significant follow up from anywhere except Switzerland who are renowned for it and jail some people!
There's a suggestion that Brexit will have stopped the rest of the EU from being able to send out tickets (or enforce them after you've left the country?) following Brexit, but make no mistake, the French did like sending tickets over as soon as they could, from 2017 onwards. https://www.visordown.com/news/industry/brexit-could-spell-trouble-french-speeding-tickets A couple of years back, I had to deal with one for doing 118kph in a 110, on the autoroute! It was so cheap that I concluded it was probably safer to pay, but what is outrageous is that unlike the UK system where the authorities have two weeks to send out the ticket (assuming you were not stopped), there seems no limit in France - mine came after 6 months. I suspect that like cross-billing for health services (EHIC card), the UK is/was useless at sending out bills/tickets to those in other countries, but our European neighbours are more efficient at it.
The delay in receiving your French speeding fine may have been due to the UK not supplying the information address etc in a timely way. DVLA are total CRAPOLA at everything else, so it would be odd if they were any better at dealing with this!
Beware Gendarmes hiding in bushes. The devils may radio ahead, stop you and then escort you round the cashpoints and relieve you all of 750E each. Plus they may give you an instant 6mnth ban. All whilst being terribly polite and charming, efficient and professional.
That did happen to a mate once - as in marched to the cashpoint and relieved of the cash. The only good thing about this was that was it. Finished. Done. Unlike our system where it is stretched out for years....
It's certainly an efficient system - very easy to make payment! https://www.antai.gouv.fr/comment-payer?lang=en I think I paid less by handing the money over within 15 days of the date on the fine notice (as distinct from the date of the offence, which as I've said, was ages before the notice). Just like a parking ticket I suppose!
Had the Supersport in the UK for a couple of years with the French plate. GF has a UK registered Monster 821, but we rode everywhere together. One Sunday morning we headed east along the A303 after the bikers breakfast at Haynes Motor Museum. I told her over the intercom that there was a van on the other side of the dual carriageway with a camera in the window. She said that they could not get us from the other side. The speeding ticket for her arrived a bit later in the post, 86 mph. I got nothing. I had been flashed a number of times while out on my own, but never heard a thing.
It’s only an issue if you get caught in the act. I’ve got shit loads and never had a problem (and I’ve been routine stopped). Switzerland is the place to be careful. And Germany. Only if you plan on going back (especially Germany) as they have a plate to licence DB whereas most of mainland Europe doesn’t.
We do not ride to Switzerland anymore here too. Their law enforcement system is worse than the fecking waffen ss… The amount of money they charge for speeding is just crazy. That’s a country where you better behave when you don’t have much money. Then you see Swiss plates on French motorways ride like Go fasts. Hate this behavior. It’s meant to be that way: cheap, so that it doesn’t become unfair between different incomes levels. Where the French system actually really gets you, when you have a French driving licence, is that on those minor speedings, they take one point off your license each time. 12 points total. Down to zero and your licence is gone. There’s a bunch of people in trouble out there because they lost all their points. That can be done in a single day without ever speeding more than +10 km/h, if you don’t pay attention and ride on heavily « radarized » itineraries… Takes 6 months without a new speeding ticket to get your point back. I usually get one every year, not for actually speeding but just not paying attention. My licence perpetually oscillates between 12 and 11 points. Last one (June) was 71 instead of 70. That’s ridiculous…
The Swiss definitely escort you to the cash point exactly like the French. I've experienced both and its like deja vu...
Right decision. A friend got caught speeding 121 in 80, 80k fine suspended for 3 years, 5k paid in cash, 3 months ban.
@Guillaume69 Dead right, getting points deducted here is very easy. My 1 point due to come off next month. Fixed camera and 83 in an 80. It was my lucky day though I approached Gendarmes hiding behind a hedge a few hours later with a speed camera from the 'correct direction' as they were facing the other way. I am sure they just turned to look at the Monster 1200 to listen to the lovely sounding Termi pipes? Switzerland, bunch of fascists these days imo (maybe for many years..) , they seem more German than the Germans. Daz verboten ist!! I did a route last year with two mates, we dipped in to Swatziland on a France, Italy, France route that included the St Bernard passes. I warned them before what to expect, they were both pleased when we left Toblerone country. I would rather detour many miles than pass through. Such a shame as there are some fantastic passes and well surfaced roads, without needing to go truly mental with speed.
