Zero Tolerance Speed Cameras!?
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Just had a couple of "Violation Notice" letters through from Paris. One for 76 in a 70 and the other for 138 in a 130. I thought there was a bit more leeway than that? Looks like they are using zero tolerance:
Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
Jabbah said:
Just had a couple of "Violation Notice" letters through from Paris. One for 76 in a 70 and the other for 138 in a 130. I thought there was a bit more leeway than that? Looks like they are using zero tolerance:
Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
Oops, I was working to more of a UK 10%+2 sort of limit myself too.. Didn’t see any speed traps at all but I guess that means nothing.Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
Jabbah said:
Just had a couple of "Violation Notice" letters through from Paris. One for 76 in a 70 and the other for 138 in a 130. I thought there was a bit more leeway than that? Looks like they are using zero tolerance:
Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
snap, identical wording and speeds.... funny that.Your vehicle was checked at: 76 km/h
For an authorized speed limit of: 70 km/h
The speed used is: 71 km/h
If this is the case there are going to be a lot of letters to the Brits over the next couple of weeks.
I'll be expecting more in a couple of weeks from the return journey...
Davwlk said:
45 euros? Pay it and stick the 'ticket' in a frame on your wall as a reminder of a brilliant weekend. When anyone asks 'What's that?' it's your excuse to immediately launch into tales of your fabulous weekend (which will probably grow like a fisherman's on every retelling)
Yes definitely going to pay them. And any others that come. The tickets will go in the team scrapbook along with all the others we've got over the years. 
One of us this year was incredibly lucky after doing a quick burn to catch up and got done by the gendarmes over 170km/h. Didn't lose license or have car taken, just €90 fine!Jabbah said:
Yes definitely going to pay them. And any others that come. The tickets will go in the team scrapbook along with all the others we've got over the years. One of us this year was incredibly lucky after doing a quick burn to catch up and got done by the gendarmes over 170km/h. Didn't lose license or have car taken, just €90 fine!
The threshold for a €90 fine is 168 so I was told by a policeman in France when I got stopped a few years ago on my way to LM after literally a squirt in what I thought was a totally open clear stretch of motorway, little did I know the bugger was sitting behind a bridge almost reviving his engine in a bush waiting..... One of us this year was incredibly lucky after doing a quick burn to catch up and got done by the gendarmes over 170km/h. Didn't lose license or have car taken, just €90 fine!Then he clocked and stopped me for 245kph in a DB9
Having then driven escorted for what seemed like many miles I ended up sitting in a long queue of UK and French cars all parting with money he simply said ‘Can you keep a secret?.........It’s just like a James Bond car.....I love it! Now slow down please, not all Gendarmerie are petrolheads and I should be banning you and taking your car, have a €90 fine, pay the man over there and be in your way’
A huge sigh of relief doesn’t begin to explain quite how I felt at that point in time!
Jabbah said:
Yes definitely going to pay them. And any others that come. The tickets will go in the team scrapbook along with all the others we've got over the years. One of us this year was incredibly lucky after doing a quick burn to catch up and got done by the gendarmes over 170km/h. Didn't lose license or have car taken, just €90 fine!
Very lucky - someone had a bad start to the weekend One of us this year was incredibly lucky after doing a quick burn to catch up and got done by the gendarmes over 170km/h. Didn't lose license or have car taken, just €90 fine!
Edited by leyorkie on Monday 24th June 12:06
Davwlk said:
45 euros? Pay it and stick the 'ticket' in a frame on your wall as a reminder of a brilliant weekend. When anyone asks 'What's that?' it's your excuse to immediately launch into tales of your fabulous weekend (which will probably grow like a fisherman's on every retelling)
My old man did that in 1988. 281kph. 900 Franc (£90) fine.
Times have changed!
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