Despite my slow driving in France, attempting to adhere to every speed limit sign (and hence incurri

Despite my slow driving in France, attempting to adhere to every speed limit sign (and hence incurring honks, bird-flips, scowls, etc from trailing drivers), upon our return to the USA we found a speeding enterprise car rental rates ticket in the pile of mail awaiting us.
What a model of efficiency!! Infraction occured on the 17th, they check with the rental company, mail the ticket on the 21st. If only everything else were that efficient. Like, couldn't they print the form in English so I wouldn't have to guess at its meaning?
106 km in a 90 km zone. 45 euros = ~ $60 If it was where I think it was, the camera was just inside the 90 km sign, at a point where I belatedly had jammed on the brakes to slow down to 90, but apparently too belatedly.
Usually the only notice one receives of a speeding ticket is a mysterious 20 administration charge from the rental company levied for passing information along to the National Police that the car was a rental. Case closed.
The speed limit, by default, on any country road (D or N) is 90km unless it's posted lower. There may or may not be any sign specifying 90km but it's still the maximum speed. The only time vehicles might exceed 90km is on a divide highway.
Europcar has charged me 25 for the two speeding tickets that I received. One was for the 45 infraction on the autoroute with about the same speeds reported by tomboy, but the last one for was 90 for going 52 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. The lower the speed limit, the higher the fine.
In olden times, I ignored enterprise car rental rates a speeding and parking ticket from California and parking tickets from Belgium and Switzerland. Probably, I could still ignore enterprise car rental rates new tickets from California, but in Europe all of the countries are signing reciprocal agreements now to enforce fines from the other countries.
It's mildly amusing to me that the French administration got their bill printed and across the ocean, while Europcar hasn't (yet) posted to VISA the $25 administrative charge for squealing on me to the FrenchFeds.
Typically, you can settle up by purchasing special stamps in the amount of your fine at a local tabac, attach the stamps to your notification paperwork, and drop it off at any nearby Prefecture. Just guess how I know this. That probably is not terribly convenient now that you are back home.
Paying the fine was the least of our problems; the police take credit cards. But early in the process, the bottleneck was Avis Recouvrement (not a part of Avis). Their "avis" in the mail was the first we knew of our traffic infraction. They wanted 20 euros to provide our address to the police but they wouldn't take credit cards. enterprise car rental rates I called and told them we had no way to pay except by credit card. I was concerned that by not paying them, the fine itself wouldn't reach us and we'd be scofflaws and not be able to rent a car in France again. (We didn't pay, and therefore we now avoid Avis.) The bill for the ticket arrived in the mail just before the due date, and in fact if we had been a few hours later calling enterprise car rental rates our credit card company, we would have missed the deadline, France time.
Tomboy, we were first notified about a speeding ticket by our rental company after our return from Germany. They, of course, charged the credit card a fee for sending us the notice. A couple days later our ticket and explanation arrived all in German. It was quite a task to get a translation of how to pay the ticket. I guess we should be happy our speeding was done in a 30km zone because our fine was only 15 euros. My husband had many email "conversations" with exceptionally enterprise car rental rates helpful staff at whatever the "DMV" is called in Germany Deborah
This is interesting. I got "flashed" in June in Italy and Switzerland - I think it was me but maybe it was the guy next to me. No tickets yet. I have a friend enterprise car rental rates driving in France a couple of weeks ago, he was lost, frustrated, honking horns, drove thru a red light. Bam! Got him! He, however, speaks a passable French, apologized, said he didn't see the light, they let him go. I will definitely brush up on my French!
The French, in the name of public safety, have placed radar cameras, some marked, some hidden, all over the country in ever increasing numbers. Critics say that a budget conscience enterprise car rental rates government is more concerned with their revenue potential than it is with public safety. No matter the reason, enterprise car rental rates radar cameras are now everywhere in France. Evidence that the rational is more one of money than of safety is that GPS s which show camera positions are now illegal in France. Radar detectors have been illegal for some time.
Previously, the National Police made little effort in collecting fines from foreigners, particularly non EU foreigners. Apparently that has changed. Drivers should be careful about speed and know what the limits are and where. Speed limits are not always posted, even though they change. For example, when travelling into a town, the sign showing the name of the town indicates that the speed limit just dropped from 70km or 90km to 50km. The sign displaying the town name with a red slash across it (indicating you are leaving the town) means that the speed limit is raised back to 90km.