French Speeding Ticket
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After travelling throughout France in a French hire car on Sunday i got flashed by a camera on the motorway.
Today a ticket arrived from the French authorities to my address in London addressed to 'Madame XXXXX'.
The hire car was hired to me (a man) and my wifes name was not involved in the hire.
The speed limit was 130km/h.
I was caught doing 139km/h.
If i pay within 46 days the fine is 45 euros.I can pay on a website using a credit card.
Shall i pay these horrible nasty French people? (bearing in mind i was a driving a hire car because my RS6 got a puncture that ended being a special "Roast Boef" repair bill of 860 euros but thats another story………………)
LOL
Today a ticket arrived from the French authorities to my address in London addressed to 'Madame XXXXX'.
The hire car was hired to me (a man) and my wifes name was not involved in the hire.
The speed limit was 130km/h.
I was caught doing 139km/h.
If i pay within 46 days the fine is 45 euros.I can pay on a website using a credit card.
Shall i pay these horrible nasty French people? (bearing in mind i was a driving a hire car because my RS6 got a puncture that ended being a special "Roast Boef" repair bill of 860 euros but thats another story………………)
LOL
CGJJ said:
After travelling throughout France in a French hire car on Sunday i got flashed by a camera on the motorway.
Today a ticket arrived from the French authorities to my address in London addressed to 'Madame XXXXX'.
If that was the actual name on the ticket then I'd safely ignore this one. You might get another one more accurately addressed later on, but I doubt it.Today a ticket arrived from the French authorities to my address in London addressed to 'Madame XXXXX'.
Someone will be along shortly to say it'll be on your record and you'll get hit next time you enter the country/hire a car/buy frogs legs in Tesco etc. but if the 'French authorities' have your name wrong then what is a very unlikely scenario becomes an impossible one.....
After ignoring the camera ticket in the 90's i have probably been nicked speeding in France about 6 times by radar/motorcycle gendarmes leading me to the next service station to a Gendarme van parked in the car park where they look at your license and passport and demand cash (which i have paid) and my previous ignored ticket has never been brought up but,this is all pre-2006 i would say.
Graham i have been flashed a few times with English plates and never got anything through.
I think the year i did get something through i had already been done in that county by radar/motorcycle cop so thats how they
put 2 and 2 together with my number plate (perhaps).
The reason they've got me this time is because of the French hire car obviously.
Rather galling that 9 km/h over the speed limit equals 6mp/h which would not be enough to set a Gatso off on an English motorway……..
I think the year i did get something through i had already been done in that county by radar/motorcycle cop so thats how they
put 2 and 2 together with my number plate (perhaps).
The reason they've got me this time is because of the French hire car obviously.
Rather galling that 9 km/h over the speed limit equals 6mp/h which would not be enough to set a Gatso off on an English motorway……..
r11co said:
Someone will be along shortly to say it'll be on your record and you'll get hit next time you enter the country/hire a car/buy frogs legs in Tesco etc. but if the 'French authorities' have your name wrong then what is a very unlikely scenario becomes an impossible one.....
I can already picture the s
tstorm when his wife gets pulled up at Customs. Unless she isn't Madame CGJJ.
Quinny said:
The only thing to be careful of, is if you hired the car with a credit card, the hire company may debit funds from the card to pay the fine, and also add costs of their own for administration etc..
Good point and certainly a possibility. The nomenclature/gender confusion may well be corrected particularly via the CC connection. I think the OP needs to ascertain whether in fact the French actually follow these fines up. If they do then I think that paying up is the only secure decision. Car hire companies will charge back if they have the details. Plus costs.Roo said:
caziques said:
Keep an eagle eye out for any spurious admin charges on your credit card, have them reversed as unauthorized transactions if any occur.
Good luck with that.Been there and done that (fair enough it was an Italian hire company, but the CC co called in the paperwork and agreed with me that if the hire mob felt I owed them money they would have to extract it from me in a way that did not involve breaking credit card transaction rules).
Edited by r11co on Tuesday 7th January 20:21
r11co said:
Roo said:
caziques said:
Keep an eagle eye out for any spurious admin charges on your credit card, have them reversed as unauthorized transactions if any occur.
Good luck with that.Are you sure this is kosher? Or did you mean Sunday 1 week ago?
It normally takes them several (about 6) weeks to send a ticket to Belgium. I can hardly believe you've got a tickt so fast (unless they have a way to identify hire cars and react more quickly, maybe before the hirer can leave the country?)
It normally takes them several (about 6) weeks to send a ticket to Belgium. I can hardly believe you've got a tickt so fast (unless they have a way to identify hire cars and react more quickly, maybe before the hirer can leave the country?)
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