Anyone else had an overseas speeding fine arrive in the mail?

[RSD]

Received a speeding fine in the mail this morning from when I hired a rental car in Italy three months ago. Anyone else had a speeding fine from overseas turn up in the mail? Clocked at 78kmh in a 70 zone by a camera apparently - considering that it was winter and night time and I was struggling to get google maps to work properly I'm not too surprised that I might have missed seeing a speed sign!

 

[VPS]

Got the "fine" from the car hire company but never received the actual ticket

 

[Forg]

Surprised the rental company didn’t just bill you after the road authorities billed them as the owner of the car … can imagine a lot of people would just ignore it, unless you go to Italy and they have some arrangement with immigration I don’t know what leverage they’d have over you? Maybe Italy can’t legally bill the owner if they can’t identify the driver?

Also - what is wrong in the world when only 78 in a 70 zone gets you a fine in Italy!

 

[RSD]

Also - what is wrong in the world when only 78 in a 70 zone gets you a fine in Italy!

There is that aspect! I was heading back to Bologna at the time - home of Lamborghini...

 

[RooFlyer]

Anyone else had a speeding fine from overseas turn up in the mail?

Years ago, I got a ticket in Spain via Avis for driving in a restricted zone. They charged my cc the fine and added an admin fee of course.

I challenged the fees to the credit card bank as I’d received no other advice about it. I sent Avis I think in Madrid was the email on the agreement, asking about it but never got a reply. That satisfied the credit card bank and they reversed the charges.

Oh, how do I know the ticket was for driving in a restricted zone? Because the hardcopy of the ticket and letter of fine arrived in the post about a week after the bank reversed the charge.

Surprised the rental company didn’t just bill you after the road authorities billed them as the owner of the car …

Yes - as above.

 

[DAC1]

I got one in the mail from Italy in January 2025. It was from January 2023…

 

[RSD]

Years ago, I got a ticket in Spain via Avis for driving in a restricted zone. They charged my cc the fine and added an admin fee of course.

I challenged the fees to the credit card bank as I’d received no other advice about it. I sent Avis I think in Madrid was the email on the agreement, asking about it but never got a reply. That satisfied the credit card bank and they reversed the charges.

Oh, how do I know the ticket was for driving in a restricted zone? Because the hardcopy of the ticket and letter of fine arrived in the post about a week after the bank reversed the charge.


Yes - as above.

This one doesn't even give me the option of paying by credit card - they want it paid by bank transfer - and because I didn't pay it within 14 days because I didn't receive it until 19 days after it was issued the fine has already gone up!

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I got one in the mail from Italy in January 2025. It was from January 2023…

That's even odder!

 

[straitman]

I got one recently for Fiji. I am not convinced it is correct but at $FJ25 ($A17) it's not worth the argument.

 

[RSD]

I got one recently for Fiji. I am not convinced it is correct but at $FJ25 ($A17) it's not worth the argument.

Would have to be one of the world's cheapest speeding fines!

 

[straitman]

Would have to be one of the world's cheapest speeding fines!

If not paid it could jump to $FJ500.

 

[kpc]

A few years ago I got a fine for a road toll in Portugal that I had not paid 2 years earlier....fortunately I had a photo of the car rego so knew it was "our" car. Whilst tempted not to pay, I could pay online and thought I better pay as I was planning to rent a car in Portugal again

 

[SYD]

Yes, at least twice possibly three…, via AVIS. They charge a “processing fee” (about US$40 from memory) and they used to send a hard copy of the fine (ignore at your peril if planning to return), but I think the last one was an electronic link to the fine (last one was Spain precovid).

 

[RSD]

a hard copy of the fine (ignore at your peril if planning to return)

Can you provide more information on the ignore at your peril bit?

 

[andye]

I'm a recurrent offender (speed, parking, other restrictions) so much so I am the butt of the andye dinner-table jokes.
I had two from the same trip to London and ended up doing the (quite interesting) speed awareness course. A litlle ironic as the top speed from either was 27 mph so hardly Ayrton Senna
Always get an admin fee from the rental provider too for extra irritation