Spanish car and French speeding camera flashes

[Traveller]

As part of an involuntary 1500 Km drive back to the UK from Madrid, after having all the flights cancelled. It seems one of the guys driving back with us got flashed twice on the French roads by Cameras in the hire car while we were sleeping.

Now this was a Spanish hire car, so am I going to be getting a nasty surprise on my VISA bill due with fines from France? Anyone got any idea on the legalities of this.

The hire car was a Skoda 1.6 TDi Octavia and it was excellent, light on fuel, comfy lots of space, all in all a decent car for a long trip. Surprisingly good performance for a small capacity diesel as well.

Edited by Traveller on Saturday 17th April 21:58

[leeeeshad]

who did you hire it from? id have thought it wouldn't be easy hiring in one country and returning it in another, or are you taking it back?

[Traveller]

It was hired in Spain, so Spanish registration and returned in France, not a lot of places are willing to do that and it was very expensive, but worked out cheaper than trying to get all of us back by train.

[PaulHogan]

Was the car insurance an 'any driver' or did all the occupants show their driving licences when hiring or just you? If, as I suspect, the latter then any fines/points will find their way to you unless you want to add driving without insurance to the list of offences.

[Traveller]

All of us were able to drive the car, so difficult to specify who it was but more worried about the hit to the credit card with any fines.