Not very tolerant in France are they?
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krallicious said:
If you are stopped then you pay. The same goes for a hire car. If it is a UK, Danish or Irish reg and you are caught on camera, then nothing will happen yet but the law changes at some point this year. (September I think)
Trust me, it varies - at least it has in my experience. Rural Savoie.
They have fondue and the Savoyarde cuisine is some of the best in France IMO. I still can only understand every 10th word though! 
Still back to tickets. I'm still waiting on on from the summer that I set off. I did not realise that they are slowly replacing the old grey boxes with newer one mounted on poles which are harder to spot.
Still back to tickets. I'm still waiting on on from the summer that I set off. I did not realise that they are slowly replacing the old grey boxes with newer one mounted on poles which are harder to spot.
Hub said:
The cameras can be quite well hidden too! At least British cars can't get caught by the cameras (yet... Though I think it is coming)
They do have a more reasonable speed limit on the Autoroute's though!
Unless something has changed, French regulation for cameras used to be that there must be a sign warning you of the camera within a certain distance. Also, regulation used to be that if there's a sign then there must be a camera - none of the warning signs we have in the UK for cameras that don't exist.They do have a more reasonable speed limit on the Autoroute's though!
I hated the way that they got more zealous and added more technology year on year. The only thing that made life bearable was using a Coyote, but even that is no protection against the well hidden traps or the ones dissimulated into moving vehicles.
The French administration had one redeeming feature - they openly stated that it wasn't just about road safety and that revenue raising was an objective.
The French administration had one redeeming feature - they openly stated that it wasn't just about road safety and that revenue raising was an objective.
krallicious said:
If you are stopped then you pay. The same goes for a hire car. If it is a UK, Danish or Irish reg and you are caught on camera, then nothing will happen yet but the law changes at some point this year. (September I think)
The changes will be implemented in May 2017.I set off plenty of fixed cameras in the year I lived there with my UK plated car and never received anything. I was once caught doing 110MPH on the autoroute by some gendarmes in a Megan RS - they drove me to the cashpoint and took €90 off me. It was quite refreshing actually - there was no lecture on how incredibly dangerous it was to be doing it on a dry, empty 5 lane motorway, simply "this is the limit, this was your speed, €90 please". All seemed pretty fair to me.
leyorkie said:
If you check your letter you will see that it is your recorded speed minus 10kph.
My last one was for 93 so it's not as strict as you think it is
It saysMy last one was for 93 so it's not as strict as you think it is
Votre vehicule a ete controle a : 97km/h
Pour un vitesse limite autorisee de: 90km/h
La Vitesse retenue est de : 92Km/h
Which Babel told me
Your vehicle has been control: 97 km/h For a maximum permitted speed of: 90 km/h The selected speed is: 92 Km/h
I was confused as to what the 92km/h lines was - did wonder if it meant they would fine above 92km/h
I can't see any reference to a 10km/h tollerance, I'm wondering now if it would be
"your speed minus 5km/h(?) is still above the limit so we're having some money"
DavidJG said:
Unless something has changed, French regulation for cameras used to be that there must be a sign warning you of the camera within a certain distance. Also, regulation used to be that if there's a sign then there must be a camera - none of the warning signs we have in the UK for cameras that don't exist.
I thought they'd done away with that as they need to catch more people to raise money.Forums | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff