Speeding in Italy

[scott smith]

Hi Guys! Many thanks to all of you!! Guess for the sake of £100 i may as well pay it. It's not worth the grief of messing up a holiday when i go back to Tuscany in June this year! My girlfriend would go ape!!! Guess i had just better wait until the polizia send me a payment request as stated in the Avis document, before i pay!

Cheers....

[fuoriserie]

Louis. said:

fuoriserie said:

scott smith said:

Cheers Blue Eyes...!!!!

Does anybody else please have any info that they can help me with on this issue; it would put my mind at ease???

Cheers

Hi Scott,

You would be better of if you paid the fine..........believe me things have changed, from what they used to be only a few years ago....

They can double the amount of the fine after 60 days, if you avoid paying ....

Ciao
Italo

Edited by fuoriserie on Tuesday 15th January 21:08

As I found out in my case ! Take Italo's advice..

and what happens if you get a parking ticket in the UK, and you never paid the fine ? is it the same ?

Edited by fuoriserie on Tuesday 22 January 13:47

[fuoriserie]

no info guys.....

[fuoriserie]

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Edited by fuoriserie on Monday 28th January 16:24

[blueyes]

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

[fuoriserie]

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

Rental car in the Uk..., and found the ticket in a Parking meter that had expired......

[blueyes]

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

Rental car in the Uk..., and found the ticket in a Parking meter that had expired......

Ok. Let me get this straight. He rented a car. Parked on a meter. The time expired and the car was issued with a parking ticket?

They might chase him through the car hire company and the hirer would take the fine by way of his credit card he used when hiring the car.

Then again they might not.

[fuoriserie]

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

Rental car in the Uk..., and found the ticket in a Parking meter that had expired......

Ok. Let me get this straight. He rented a car. Parked on a meter. The time expired and the car was issued with a parking ticket?

They might chase him through the car hire company and the hirer would take the fine by way of his credit card he used when hiring the car.

Then again they might not.

that was exactly what happened !, he was waiting for the rental car company to debit his credit card, but it never happened....we should both be coming to the UK this year, and was concerned .

[blueyes]

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

Rental car in the Uk..., and found the ticket in a Parking meter that had expired......

Ok. Let me get this straight. He rented a car. Parked on a meter. The time expired and the car was issued with a parking ticket?

They might chase him through the car hire company and the hirer would take the fine by way of his credit card he used when hiring the car.

Then again they might not.

that was exactly what happened !, he was waiting for the rental car company to debit his credit card, but it never happened....we should both be coming to the UK this year, and was concerned .

Forget it.
Have a grappa to celebrate.

[fuoriserie]

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

blueyes said:

fuoriserie said:

I'll tell my friend he can forget about it..

Italian car on Italian plates?

Parking ticket in the UK?

Tell your friend to use it as cart'igienica.

Rental car in the Uk..., and found the ticket in a Parking meter that had expired......

Ok. Let me get this straight. He rented a car. Parked on a meter. The time expired and the car was issued with a parking ticket?

They might chase him through the car hire company and the hirer would take the fine by way of his credit card he used when hiring the car.

Then again they might not.

that was exactly what happened !, he was waiting for the rental car company to debit his credit card, but it never happened....we should both be coming to the UK this year, and was concerned .

Forget it.
Have a grappa to celebrate.

Thanks for your info Blueyes,

was thinking about having a Zeta Piras or limoncello, after dinner tonight....

[xjandy]

I have driven Uk to Italy and back at least 20 times and I was fined in France on the motorway for doing 115mph once.I was told another 15kmh and I would have been walking home.I think they confiscate the car at around 130mph.Paid cash.
I cruise at 1.. for hours in Italy...same as everybody else and have never had anything from Italy. I always take cash with me in case.
The Italian system is very very longwinded and disorganised.I doubt they could get it together to follow it up, but you never know.

[Louis.]

I think for people that are not resident in Italy it is probably too much hassle (but don't quote me on that !) whereas people who ARE resident in Italy, it is much more likely you will get a ticket (IF caught by camera!)

[Washand]

I'm a UK citizen living in the UK and was on holiday near Pisa in July 2008, where I hired a car for a couple of weeks. I have just received 2 speed tickets, over 18 months later, from the "Polizia Municipale, Commune di Ferenza" or the Florence Police. I guess the tickets were the product of those irritating autovelox cameras which abound on the Pisa-Florence highway.

The letters from the police do not state the speed limit or what speed I was allegedly driving at, so 3 questions arise:

1. Can they really enforce payment of fines when the notification letter arrives over 18 months after the alleged incident?

2. Is it normal for Italian police to issue speeding tickets without mentioning the actual speed that I was supposed to be driving?

3. Can I get information on the alleged speeding offence at www.emo.nivi.it ? I don't want to log in with the supplied username and password just yet because the letters did not come by registered mail and I want to stay annonymous for the time being.

The fine for each alleged offence is 116 Euros, but I have no way of verifying the nature of the alleged violation. We all know that speed cameras have an error associated with the speed measurement, and I suspect that my speed was not greatly over the limit, if indeed it was over the limit. In a UK situation, I would definitely contest this, but from what I read, the Italian police are fairly corrupt, and the word "no" is met with an organisation called "European Municipality Outsourcing", a nice euphamism for a bunch of debt-collecting thugs. Italian courts never rule in favour of the driver I am told. Does anyone have any actual experience of the process, as it now exists in northern Italy?

[Eseetiger]

I have just received a notification from Florence Municipal Authority confirming a speeding offence (92kph in a 70kph area) which occurred last year 22/8/10 demanding payment of a 201 euro fine!?

The alleged offence has come to me as I was the person detailed on the hire car agreement with Europcar, but I was not driving at that time.

Any advice and/or previous experiences?

I am tempted to ignore it and hope it goes away, but it appears that the offence has been passed onto a separate agency called EMO (European Municipal Outsourcing) who have probably acquired the info from Europcar!

[catso]

Eseetiger said:

I have just received a notification from Florence Municipal Authority confirming a speeding offence (92kph in a 70kph area) which occurred last year 22/8/10 demanding payment of a 201 euro fine!?

The alleged offence has come to me as I was the person detailed on the hire car agreement with Europcar, but I was not driving at that time.

Any advice and/or previous experiences?

I am tempted to ignore it and hope it goes away, but it appears that the offence has been passed onto a separate agency called EMO (European Municipal Outsourcing) who have probably acquired the info from Europcar!

Four years ago (at the the start of this thread) I said I'd ignore it, my advice hasn't changed.

[sarahjprice]

I've just had 2 speeding fines for offences in Italy that allegedly took place in April. I see others have had similar problems. Did any of you pay up or did you chose to ignore? If you did nothing did you get the debt collectors knocking at your doors?

[Ali2202]

sarahjprice said:

I've just had 2 speeding fines for offences in Italy that allegedly took place in April. I see others have had similar problems. Did any of you pay up or did you chose to ignore? If you did nothing did you get the debt collectors knocking at your doors?

Were you in a hire car?

[ecain63]

I'm just coming to the end of 7 days pootling around Lake Garda and Verona. No big speeds have been recorded with the hire car being a ste Fiat 500 but having noticed a few of those sneaky orange boxes along the banks of Garda in the latter half of the week I'm a little concerned as to what I didn't see earlier in the week.

If I do get a ticket via Sixt hire should I just ignore it and block my credit card or should I pay up like a good boy? Do these speed cameras normally work, like ours at home don't or are the hot on it like flies to turds?

[AlexIT]

hi ecain,

according to the latest courts' decisions over here operating radars must have a clear indication, as in this pic:

http://www.ilcorrieredabruzzo.it/immagini/cronaca/...

if you didn't notice then most probably they weren't radars. If they were orange, at my guess they might well have been an emergency call point, like this:

http://www.autocisa.com/images/prod_sos.jpg

Hope you've enjoyed your stay, I've spent the best 18 years of my life over there

[ecain63]

AlexIT said:

hi ecain,

according to the latest courts' decisions over here operating radars must have a clear indication, as in this pic:

http://www.ilcorrieredabruzzo.it/immagini/cronaca/...

if you didn't notice then most probably they weren't radars. If they were orange, at my guess they might well have been an emergency call point, like this:

http://www.autocisa.com/images/prod_sos.jpg

Hope you've enjoyed your stay, I've spent the best 18 years of my life over there

It's these that I keep seeing. Autovelox orange things. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autovelox_o...


Had a great time thanks. Discovered also that horse meat is by far a superior meat to beef. Will be hunting it down when I get home!