Speeding fine from Norway?
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nigelpugh7 said:
Also as Norway are a part of the Shengen agreement, I could not risk any endorsement or loss of my international driving licence.
International driving licences do not exist. There are international driving permits, which are only a translation of your home country licence. The only thing international about a driving licence is that they are generally acceptable in many, but not all, places for short term visitors to be allowed to drive in-country. nigelpugh7 said:
He had no reason to do so, and as a person I have known and worked with for over 18 years, I trust everything he says regarding his mother country.
Also as Norway are a part of the Shengen agreement, I could not risk any endorsement or loss of my international driving licence.
I'm sorry for the OT but I had to lol at you sneaking in the Durex dash button tab in your screenshot for extra man points. Worst "I'm so busy sexing women I need a dedicated condom reorder button" post ever. Also as Norway are a part of the Shengen agreement, I could not risk any endorsement or loss of my international driving licence.
rainmakerraw said:
I'm sorry for the OT but I had to lol at you sneaking in the Durex dash button tab in your screenshot for extra man points. Worst "I'm so busy sexing women I need a dedicated condom reorder button" post ever.
Christ I didn't even notice it there to be hoenest!Sorry if it offended anyone!
Tom-3sdk2 said:
Sorry, one last question for the OP. When you got your letter 5 months later was it still for the original amount? They hadn't added any extra?
Sorry buddy it's been such a long time since the event, I can't recall.I'm sure the letter said something about the collection agency working on behalf of the Norwegian police levied a charge, but can't recall how much, sorry.
Tom-3sdk2 said:
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but Google doesn't really yield a definitive answer.
Just had a similar occurrence to OP. Been on a driving holiday in Norway, we rented a car. My father was driving and we were stopped by an undercover police officer on a deserted wilderness road doing 110kph in an 80 zone (the speed limits in Norway are ridiculously low and change arbitrarily and constantly).
He was issued a 6500KOR fine (£587!!!!) for this by the officer who took name and address and said he had to pay by giro within 14 days.
please comments about not speeding etc aside (as said road was in northern Norway and was totally deserted, a similar road in any other country on Earth would carry a much higher limit), what are the chances they will actively pursue this fine once we're back home? He plans to NEVER visit Norway again.
I have had something similar this summer in (extremely beautiful) Norway. A cop stopped me when I was driving 70-something in a 50 zone (he called it a village, maybe there were 3 houses a far away Just had a similar occurrence to OP. Been on a driving holiday in Norway, we rented a car. My father was driving and we were stopped by an undercover police officer on a deserted wilderness road doing 110kph in an 80 zone (the speed limits in Norway are ridiculously low and change arbitrarily and constantly).
He was issued a 6500KOR fine (£587!!!!) for this by the officer who took name and address and said he had to pay by giro within 14 days.
please comments about not speeding etc aside (as said road was in northern Norway and was totally deserted, a similar road in any other country on Earth would carry a much higher limit), what are the chances they will actively pursue this fine once we're back home? He plans to NEVER visit Norway again.
). I was also issued 6500 NOK. He told me I did not have to pay immediately, but I could do it when I was back home. All in once, or in payments I could choose myself. When I asked him within how many days/weeks/months it had to be paid, he said it did not matter. He only registered my car liscense plate, name (spelled wrongly) and address (which I had to give myself, so I could have easily made up something). I haven't paid it yet, but now I think of it, as long as I do not come back to Norway, I think I could get away with it. Maybe I could even come back again, but just with an other car.pim said:
If you don't pay nothing will happen unless you go back to Norway,even then it could be difficult to chase you.
That is why in France you pay on the spot fines it cost to much to chase foreign fines up.
For on the spot fines, they even make French plates pay up at the roadside. I was caught in our French plate car with headphones in my ear (the phone was in the cradle, but it's now against the law in France to have anything but a built in bluetooth handsfree, but I didn't know at the time) at the French/Italian Tunnel de Frejus. That is why in France you pay on the spot fines it cost to much to chase foreign fines up.
€90... two policemen drove me 25mins each way to a cash point, and then spent 40mins whilst they tried to work out which penal code to stick on the form. They could have just said "don't do it again" and I would have learnt my lesson.
Vaud said:
rainmakerraw said:
I'm sorry for the OT but I had to lol at you sneaking in the Durex dash button tab in your screenshot for extra man points. Worst "I'm so busy sexing women I need a dedicated condom reorder button" post ever.
Plus the wide angle lens!
nigelpugh7 said:
I think it was from Crawley to Leatherhead actually! 
But now thinking about it I'm not sure what I was looking for?I might have been looking for the best route from the Caterham showroom in Crawley to pick my wife up from her offices in Leatherhead, can't think why else I would have been looking for that route!
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