Member Since: 19 May 2006
Location: lancashire
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from a police perspective!!!!!!! the software used by the french camera enforcement cannot currently recognize british number plates. however this is about to change as they have aquired the capability but are still at the discussion stage with the brits over jurisdiction of the fines.
it is only a matter of time before the fine drops through your door in time for your arrival home Gone.......but not forgotten
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15th Feb 2007 5:40 pm
SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
Posts: 3095
is the reverse true as I know several Europeans here who believe they are immune to such things???
end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
15th Feb 2007 5:55 pm
tfl_golf
Member Since: 23 Jan 2007
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 24
With all this talk about speeding fines you obviously know how SWMBO drives !!! On return from Rugby last week the story goes :- "Well I saw a RRS and just wondered mmmm it goes 110 mph but takes a while to get there !!!" No post to date.
BTW A couple we where going with cannot rearrange their work so if anyone is bored with a D3 sat on the drive there is presently a room available - It's fully catered and £220 per person for Fri 23rd to Tue 27th Feb.
15th Feb 2007 10:24 pm
nickgriff
Member Since: 06 Nov 2006
Location: Switzerland/France
Posts: 58
SPOTTER wrote:
is the reverse true as I know several Europeans here who believe they are immune to such things???
yes they are immune, the French would strike, the Swiss would sit there and threaten not to give back our money, the Germans would Invade and the Spanish would be too busy at lunch to worry! Not forgetting the Brits, who would moan to eachother, but pay the fine.
16th Feb 2007 8:50 am
SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
Posts: 3095
it is a bit wierd, all this talk on here about what the Gendarmes etc. can do to you......
I know all my French, Spanish, Italian, Spanish, Polish etc. friends would never give the remotest thought as to what the UK police might catch them for, nor do they worry about making an effort to fulfil the letter of the law for anything for that matter........like replating your car in the UK once you have been here for 10 years
what it is to be British end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
Maps of all fixed "radars" as the French call them can be found at the following site, by region, with a precise description of the location if you hover the mouse over each installation on the map:
P.S. they can't do you on the time between peages because the ticket machines and booths do not use the same clock and there is no correlation between them (yet)!
16th Feb 2007 11:44 am
LHD
Member Since: 05 Apr 2006
Location: Lugano area
Posts: 689
If you plan your route with www.mappy.com it also highlights the cameras They're mostly all in 90-110 zones around cities at the moment.
I'd not fret about chains right now. They're efficient at cleaning up. Oh - but I do have winter tyres on my beast.
They can read Swiss plates; in the old car giving it some through France, a sign at the side of the road displayed my number and the wonderful phrase "Trop vite" That was from sensors on autoroute bridges but that was down towards Marseille.
For European venturers, I find one thing very good - no matter how full the car is, it does not look loaded. Thankfully....as I came back from just north of Venice with about 100 bottles of wine and dead rabbits/birds from my wife's great uncle!! Not to mention the waterbottles filled with home-made grappa Discovery 3 Manual as PDF | Blackvue 500 | BAS Remap | Mates did South America in a Landie
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No post to date.
but that was down towards Marseille.
