Got flashd by a Speed Camera in Germany

Virdi

Virdi

Virdi

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Hi all,

A friend of mine was in Germany last week and he believes he got flashed by a forward facing camera..... He was doing between 80-90Mph

Do you think he'll get done for this?

Thanks
 
Was it a rented car? He will get a ticket, trust me, I got one.

I haven't actually paid it though, and that was in March/April time.
 
Isn't it against the Geneva convention to penalize someone driving in a foreign country? There was a video a while ago of some Japanese dude going well over 100MPH and he was pulled by some British coppers. If I remember correctly they confiscated his car for a while, but that was all that happened.
 
Ther Germans might do something about it, but the lazier European nations can't be bothered with finding out who owns foreign cars enough to send them a ticket.

If they did, you only pay the fine - no 'inter-EU' points system exists. In much the same way as if you told the police a foreign national was driving your car in the UK when you got flashed, and you gave them the £60, you'd avoid getting any points. Rather laborious though.
 
Mine was a rented car, so they had our details etc. Someone I work with lost the ticket and it's never been paid. No one from Germany has come calling.
 
Perfectly safe. There are currently no inter-country regulations yet that allow offences caught on cameras in foreign countries to be persued back in the home country of the driver. In the very rare occurence of the car being tracked and a fine being issued it can just be stuffed in the recycling bin and ignored.

Being stopped by a police officer, on the other hand, is a completely different matter.
 
TheKnat said:
Isn't it against the Geneva convention to penalize someone driving in a foreign country?
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No. The Geneva Convention is about the treatment of people during War.

The example you've given sounds peculiar, everyone is liable for offences they commit in the country they are in (apart from people with diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention). However, unless they plan on getting the said driver extradited back to Germany on a driving charge, then they'd be pretty safe as long as they didn't go back there.
 
the jap guy,

is he not the guy that tried to crack 200mph on the m1 and was quickly deported :)
 
They will trace you, abduct you and then enslave giving you a name like franz and then make you construct hoff houses for the rest of your days :)

Your days are numbered :D

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