dutch speeding ticket - do I need to pay?
 

I have just received a dutch speeding ticket for an offence on 1st June this year. 119kmh in a 100kmh limit on the amsterdam ring-road at 03:30 in the morning in a hire car. I know I did it, I remember seeing the speed camera too late & being glad - wrongly? - that I wasn't in the UK

sooo .. am I obliged to pay it? it's all in dutch so I'm just wondering whether it's an automatic thing that's been sent out not realizing that I'm in the UK

~andy

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Have the hire co. got your credit card details?
I don't know if they would be lumbered with the fine & pass it on to you with a big admin charge.
Probably not though. ;)
HTH

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I think its due to it being a hire car the fine will have gone to the company then they said "twas this person speeding !" but dont know if you need to pay or not.

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Hi there, no worries, nothing can happen: Although we are in the EU, countries cannot charge you if you have a foreign driving licence, really.

I rode through a speed cam in Bristol, but I have a German licence, so I got the first letter, replied as good as I could, even putting down my licence number - and the second letler said that they will drop charges.

(Now I am in Germany with a British number plate - meaning I can park where ever the hell I want...)

regards, Nadine

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My Dad got one from Germany when he lives in Belgium, he ended up paying it. The Germans have been known to get a bit aggressive on occasions... :)

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Don't have to pay it but don't go back to Holland again...

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God bless the EU - 20 member tsates and 200 different licencing systems!

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if you fail to pay a fine in the EU states; and I know this from experience (not me m'lud) you can be arrested on re-entry, particularly at airports. The initial speeding fines will have multiplied in amount, court fees will have been added, and I know of one person who spent ages in jail on arriving in Germany for just such an offence of not paying because it was a foreign speeding fine.

So, Nadine - that's the sort of thing you could end up with if you park illegally in Germany - Why haven't you got german plates? and why aren't you paying german taxes for cars? You can only reside for so long in a country on your importing countries plates before you have to re-register your car (export happens from the day you take it out of the country of origin - unles syou're ona very long "holiday?")

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Well I don't know if the hire company will try and get money out of you but one thing is for certain, it was a driving offence so someone WILL pay I'm fairly sure

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Where's Neio when you need him;)