Europcar and Italian fines

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So I've been a bit of a muppet.

I was in Italy and had to make Florence to Pisa very, very quickly. This was in a Europcar rental.

Europcar have since been in contact to say that I have accrued 5 fines in Italy. This was back in August and I am yet to see the fines but I'm expecting them to be rather large.

I will pay the Europcar admin fees because I don't want to be banned from renting cars.

Should I pay the Italian traffic fines?

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Algarve said:

Are you going to get a choice?

Often European fines will be paid by the hire company and charged back to your card.

I’ve had an email from Europcar and they have told me that do not have details of the fine due to italian law and that the authorities will be in contact so it looks at this stage to be separate.

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LJTS said:

I've had an email from Hertz and they've charged me an admin fee for forwarding my details to the Italian Authorities regarding a speeding fine from September.

I'm still waiting for a speeding ticket to arrive in the post.

It was going from Florence to Pisa as per the OP :-)

Apparently, the Italians allow 360 days for fines. Bit different to our 14!