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Can anyone translate French --Speeding fine??
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Switzerland is not part of the EU.

Very unlikely they will pursue you as too expensive. Possible that they might sell the debt on to U.K. Based debt collection service who would add significant fees.

Got two of these in Austria last year, just made money for rental company.
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bar shaker wrote:
Out of interest, you don't get the '10% plus a bit' margin in France. One of mine was for 137km/h..

That's handy to know, I usually set the cruse at 149 (130+15%). Think I might bring that down to 135.
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Jonny996 wrote:
bar shaker wrote:
Out of interest, you don't get the '10% plus a bit' margin in France. One of mine was for 137km/h..

That's handy to know, I usually set the cruse at 149 (130+15%). Think I might bring that down to 135.


149 = 93mph? Your choice but that's way to much to avoid the polices attention. The official limit is around 80mph I just go with 85 on cruise and relax. On the other hand I have been done by the pesky speed cameras in places you least expect around town etc.
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In France you get 5% correction.
Was 137 the corrected speed or the recorded speed?
Your French ticket will show both.
If it was the recorded speed you were super-unlucky as 136 would have kept you in the corrected window.
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@WindOfChange, I was pretty surprised too and it was this fine that prompted me to get the satnav. I've done just over 8000 miles ( Shocked ) in the 10 months since and had no more problems, despite driving 'briskly'.

I'm not sure if other retail companies are the same but with Europcar, you sign a document that allows them to bill your credit card for any fines that you do not pay. If you don't pay, not only would you have the fine deducted from your credit card, but I suspect you would risk being blacklisted from the hire company. Hire companies also share such info with each other, so I would pay my fines asap, if I got any more.
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bar shaker wrote:
@WindOfChange, I was pretty surprised too and it was this fine that prompted me to get the satnav. I've done just over 8000 miles ( Shocked ) in the 10 months since and had no more problems, despite driving 'briskly'.

I'm not sure if other retail companies are the same but with Europcar, you sign a document that allows them to bill your credit card for any fines that you do not pay. If you don't pay, not only would you have the fine deducted from your credit card, but I suspect you would risk being blacklisted from the hire company. Hire companies also share such info with each other, so I would pay my fines asap, if I got any more.


Its worse, they bill you a charge for processing the fine as they give the police your details and they charge you an admin fee for doing this. You then have to pay the police. You get hit twice. I know.................. Embarassed
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Just got a letter in the post for my French hire car over Xmas- was expecting it as I saw a flash approaching the border at Geneva.
Avis/Budget are charging me e70 admin fee for TWO speeding fines which I will receive in due course Sad Dunno where the second fine has come from, although I did two return trips to Geneva Sad

The tunnel at Moutier has a very active camera about two/thirds along activates at 70kph I know a couple of locals who have been caught.....
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@boredsurfin, Will you need to inform your insurance company do you think?
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Bergmeister wrote:


I've driven that stretch of road a lot and still struggle to determine what the limit is, in parts. The signs seem to change frm 50 to 70 to 90 and back again on an almost random basis and can sometimes be almost impossible to spot. Or is that only me?

Is €45 still the standard rate for prompt payment? Puzzled


No that is normal, how else do they make money? (I've never been fined btw but it is hard to spot signs). Note, in town it is 50 or 30, that is every time you go though some pissant village with a sign with a red border around it like this:

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@red 27, Why? I was in another country, driving a car thats not mine etc etc
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davidof wrote:
Bergmeister wrote:


I've driven that stretch of road a lot and still struggle to determine what the limit is, in parts. The signs seem to change frm 50 to 70 to 90 and back again on an almost random basis and can sometimes be almost impossible to spot. Or is that only me?

Is €45 still the standard rate for prompt payment? Puzzled


No that is normal, how else do they make money? (I've never been fined btw but it is hard to spot signs). Note, in town it is 50 or 30, that is every time you go though some pissant village with a sign with a red border around it like this:




and soon to be reduced again from July?
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boredsurfin wrote:
davidof wrote:
Bergmeister wrote:


I've driven that stretch of road a lot and still struggle to determine what the limit is, in parts. The signs seem to change frm 50 to 70 to 90 and back again on an almost random basis and can sometimes be almost impossible to spot. Or is that only me?

Is €45 still the standard rate for prompt payment? Puzzled


No that is normal, how else do they make money? (I've never been fined btw but it is hard to spot signs). Note, in town it is 50 or 30, that is every time you go though some pissant village with a sign with a red border around it like this:




and soon to be reduced again from July?


ah yes, but not on all roads!
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boredsurfin wrote:
@red 27, Why?


Well that's what I was asking you, really... I'm curious whether you (one) needs to under these circumstances.

Disclosure can be quite important should there be a £20k claim for writing off the motor (God forbid). They will look for any reason - and dig to any depths - to wriggle out of a big claim.

Insurance is - after all - about risk, and they might reasonably argue that your speeding convictions represent a heightened level of risk that they need to know about
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You know it makes sense.

@red 27, Its a penalty not a conviction - no points or prosecution.
Even my last interaction with a speed camera in the UK resulted in my atandance on a How to drive faster safely course - which my Insurance company does not require me to declare - i know some do however.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Just an update to my original post . I never did receive the Fine from the French authorities so therefore never paid it ,only the admin fee from Hertz .
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@boredsurfin, there’s a 70 kph cam just as you pass Migros in Annemasse. Bit sneaky.
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