Driving to Como - what is the real deal re speeding tickets?
Driving to Como - what is the real deal re speeding tickets?
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adamfawsitt

Original Poster:

544 posts

237 months

Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.

Nothingofnote

19 posts

102 months

Is half term over yet?

Or perhaps one of your helicopters is better for that?

Mabbs9

1,593 posts

242 months

said:
The profile looks a like unconvincing.

martinbiz

3,668 posts

169 months

adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.
laugh username spelt wrong,should be adamhalfwitt

Caddyshack

14,179 posts

230 months

adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.
I believe France has now made it a criminal offence and can prosecute. I think other countries will now lock you up and or confiscate cars or on the spot fines.

MikeM6

5,850 posts

126 months

adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.
I'd stick to certain sections of the autobahn for those speeds.

Tarby

46 posts

2 months

adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.
Nice, ignore the naysayers you’ll be fine post Brexit they can only detain you if they can catch you,

Great thread here also: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

valiant

13,467 posts

184 months

Yep, you’ll be fine.

Just ignore any tickets you get so feel free to give it the absolute beans when passing cameras. Police will rarely stop you either as they know they won’t get their money.

Make sure you go via Switzerland as well as they are really chilled with speeders and actively encourage it on occasion.

adamfawsitt

Original Poster:

544 posts

237 months

Tarby said:
adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!

Thanks in advance for your help.
Nice, ignore the naysayers you ll be fine post Brexit they can only detain you if they can catch you,

Great thread here also: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Thanks - appreciate the helpful reply.

theboss

7,408 posts

243 months

adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!
On the simple issue of ticketing, for what it’s worth, I set off a load of cameras in Austria and and also completely ignored the Belgian average speed zones between Liege and Ostende and received nothing in the post just in the last month. I’m surprised given the Austrians have all the info they need from my vignette account.

adamfawsitt

Original Poster:

544 posts

237 months

Yesterday (19:15)
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theboss said:
adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!
On the simple issue of ticketing, for what it s worth, I set off a load of cameras in Austria and and also completely ignored the Belgian average speed zones between Liege and Ostende and received nothing in the post just in the last month. I m surprised given the Austrians have all the info they need from my vignette account.
Thanks - good to know!

JohnnyUK

1,049 posts

102 months

Yesterday (19:25)
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valiant said:
Yep, you ll be fine.

Just ignore any tickets you get so feel free to give it the absolute beans when passing cameras. Police will rarely stop you either as they know they won t get their money.

Make sure you go via Switzerland as well as they are really chilled with speeders and actively encourage it on occasion.
laugh

MDL111

8,587 posts

201 months

Yesterday (19:29)
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theboss said:
adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!
On the simple issue of ticketing, for what it s worth, I set off a load of cameras in Austria and and also completely ignored the Belgian average speed zones between Liege and Ostende and received nothing in the post just in the last month. I m surprised given the Austrians have all the info they need from my vignette account.
just as an fyi, the Austrians sometimes take up to 3 months to send you a ticket - at least they do when on a German plate. Not sure about UK

MDL111

8,587 posts

201 months

Yesterday (19:30)
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MDL111 said:
valiant said:
Yep, you ll be fine.

Make sure you go via Switzerland as well as they are really chilled with speeders and actively encourage it on occasion.
thanks that genuinely made me laugh - needed a bit of entertainment today

MDL111

8,587 posts

201 months

Yesterday (19:33)
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and to reply to the question - I really would not recommend doing those speeds on a consistent basis in Italy. They might not send you a ticket, but if they do stop you, it will be painful / they might not let you continue onwards, which then means trailering the car to the border.

Tarby

46 posts

2 months

Yesterday (21:14)
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MDL111 said:
and to reply to the question - I really would not recommend doing those speeds on a consistent basis in Italy. They might not send you a ticket, but if they do stop you, it will be painful / they might not let you continue onwards, which then means trailering the car to the border.
Lol what total nonsense.

theboss

7,408 posts

243 months

Yesterday (21:48)
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MDL111 said:
theboss said:
adamfawsitt said:
Doing the trip in one day and would like to cruise at 130-150MPH without getting a ticket. Did this in 2024 with no issues but now Starmer is hugging the Euros I am not sure exactly where we stand.

Does anyone know definitively how ticketing works for UK Citizens - very happy to be snowed by paperwork and bin it if they are impotent to prosecute me!
On the simple issue of ticketing, for what it s worth, I set off a load of cameras in Austria and and also completely ignored the Belgian average speed zones between Liege and Ostende and received nothing in the post just in the last month. I m surprised given the Austrians have all the info they need from my vignette account.
just as an fyi, the Austrians sometimes take up to 3 months to send you a ticket - at least they do when on a German plate. Not sure about UK
Appreciate the heads up, but I've done the same thing half a dozen times in the last few years and not received a thing.

In 2019 my brother used by M5 to drive to Vienna and I ended up with a whole stack of them on the door mat a few months later. And yes he paid them all!