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Follow-up - French speed traps
Just to demonstrate that foreign-registered cars no longer get away with
speeding on the French roads, last weekend's figures just released for the A64 motorway on the way to the Spanish border showed (in a 110 kph limit area): 164 speeding violations in total, including 96 foreign-registered cars, mainly Spanish tourists on their way home from a skiing holiday. Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable on the spot, licence confiscated, car immobilised until a replacement driver is provided, plus a summons to appear in court. Expensive ski trip! Pete www.skiclublesarcs.com |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
PG wrote:
Just to demonstrate that foreign-registered cars no longer get away with speeding on the French roads, last weekend's figures just released for the A64 motorway on the way to the Spanish border showed (in a 110 kph limit area): 164 speeding violations in total, including 96 foreign-registered cars, mainly Spanish tourists on their way home from a skiing holiday. Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable on the spot, licence confiscated, car immobilised until a replacement driver is provided, plus a summons to appear in court. Expensive ski trip! Yes but that sounds like drivers actually stopped, not photographed. It's always been tough enough if they actually stopped you for doing major speed. -- Hog |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
PG wrote:
Just to demonstrate that foreign-registered cars no longer get away with speeding on the French roads, last weekend's figures just released for the A64 motorway on the way to the Spanish border showed (in a 110 kph limit area): =20 164 speeding violations in total, including 96 foreign-registered cars, mainly Spanish tourists on their way home from a skiing holiday. =20 Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable on the spot, licence confiscated, car immobilised until a replacement driver is provided, plus a summons to appear in court. =20 Expensive ski trip! =20 Pete www.skiclublesarcs.com And this lot are collecting fines across Europe, apparently: http://www.epcplc.com/uk/offenderservices/index.html --=20 cupra (remove nospam please to mail) |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:19:52 +0100, "PG"
wrote: Just to demonstrate that foreign-registered cars no longer get away with speeding on the French roads, last weekend's figures just released for the A64 motorway on the way to the Spanish border showed (in a 110 kph limit area): 164 speeding violations in total, including 96 foreign-registered cars, mainly Spanish tourists on their way home from a skiing holiday. I'm just hoping they're still not trying to enforce fines for Swiss-plated cars, although I have to say I didn't actually notice any fixed cameras on my way back from Soldeu last week... Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable on the spot, licence confiscated, car immobilised until a replacement driver is provided, plus a summons to appear in court. So this isn't the 'new' gatso-type radars at all, but the traditional roadside hairdryer type, and it's not on a 'proper' autoroute, but a restricted, non-péage, bit. Expensive ski trip! Indeed. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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"Hog" wrote in message ... | PG wrote: ..../... | Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable | on the spot, licence confiscated, car immobilised until a replacement | driver is provided, plus a summons to appear in court. | | Expensive ski trip! | | Yes but that sounds like drivers actually stopped, not photographed. It's | always been tough enough if they actually stopped you for doing major speed. Yes a mobile trap, but believe me there's more and more of them with the new 'zero tolerance' policy.... and they've started to try to camouflage the radar positions better (reckon the flics must be on a percentage)... Pete www.skiclublesarcs.com |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
There's a company here that collects on their behalf, they add about CHF 200
to the fine for their efforts :-( -- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch "Ace" wrote in message ... I'm just hoping they're still not trying to enforce fines for Swiss-plated cars, although I have to say I didn't actually notice any fixed cameras on my way back from Soldeu last week... Those driving around 150/160 kph received fines of 750 euros payable on |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:46:26 +0100, "Simon Brown"
wrote: There's a company here that collects on their behalf, they add about CHF 200 to the fine for their efforts :-( Just for parking fines, I think you'll find. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
No, speeding as well. They handle UK speeding tickets etc., I've seen the
results of their handiwork although it was a workmate who received the invoice, not me :-) Anyway you may be lucky. FWIW we have heavy snowfall here and due to an accident yesterday the main snow clearing machine is out of action. I expect poor visibility but great powder at the moment. Waded out through 30cms - 50 cms to get the post this morning. Lorra lorra snow. -- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch "Ace" wrote in message ... There's a company here that collects on their behalf, they add about CHF 200 to the fine for their efforts :-( Just for parking fines, I think you'll find. |
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| "Ace" wrote in message
| ... "Simon Brown" wrote in message ... | FWIW we have heavy snowfall here and due to an accident yesterday the main | snow clearing machine is out of action. I expect poor visibility but great | powder at the moment. Waded out through 30cms - 50 cms to get the post this | morning. | | Lorra lorra snow. They say you can't have too much of a good thing, but..... Yesterday was the first day they actually managed to open most of the Les Arcs domain after the heavy recent falls. Today it's coming down heavier than ever, and more is forecast. Friday looks like being the first sunny day for a while. Pete www.skiclublesarcs.com |
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Follow-up - French speed traps
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:27:46 +0100, "Simon Brown"
wrote: FWIW we have heavy snowfall here and due to an accident yesterday the main snow clearing machine is out of action. I expect poor visibility but great powder at the moment. Waded out through 30cms - 50 cms to get the post this morning. Lorra lorra snow. Not surprised - we've even had snow settling round here in the last 24 hours, although the temperature's a bit high (+3 at 8 this morning) for it to settle much on the roads. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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