Flashed by camera in France, do they follow up? (1 Viewer)

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Maybe the drivers just prefer not to break the law

So why brake the law on the approach and after passing? Ill presume you dont know though.

 

[MR. FUSION]

Everything will change in 2017 the French (and all the other EU countries) will have legal access to the DVLA database and can fine and give you points as if you were in France......The UK will have to become part of the EU blanket driving legal system in 2017 which it has opted out of so far......YOU AND I HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

 

[Lenny HB]

Forgot to mention this, I had sort of forgotten but when cross with me this morning Bev reminded me
Coming off the free bit of motorway from Calais to Boulogne, came off just before tolls and going down the hill forgot we were 5 tons, there is a 50kph limit down the hill above 3.5t, were doing about 60 and got flashed

We got flashed by the same one about 18 months ago, never heard anything at the time we were only 3500kg.

Is a sat nav with speed warnings in the same fine bracket as a Snooper or is it a lesser fine. I have never bothered to negate the function on my Sat Nav, since I find it so useful in keeping to the variable speed limits.

If you camera database is reasonably up to date say less than 3 or 4 years old you still get the warnings, but instead of a camera warning you get "dangerous stretch of road" warning.
Or did you mean speed warnings like my one does, if you go over the limit is shouts "This is a 50klph speed limit", there is nothing wrong with it is not a camera warning.

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[haganap]

I heard that if your fashed in a Hymer with a dodgy turbo in France they are now issuing the death penalty to anyone in the vechile.

 

[Dorwyn]

We got flashed by the same one about 18 months ago, never heard anything at the time we were only 3500kg.


If you camera database is reasonably up to date say less than 3 or 4 years old you still get the warnings, but instead of a camera warning you get "dangerous stretch of road" warning.
Or did you mean speed warnings like my one does, if you go over the limit is shouts "This is a 50klph speed limit", there is nothing wrong with it is not a camera warning.

Both. It seems OK on both counts

 

[Phillybarbour]

Rits happened to me twice and never been followed up, the last one summer 2015.

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[Sundowners]

Forgot to mention this, I had sort of forgotten but when cross with me this morning Bev reminded me

Coming off the free bit of motorway from Calais to Boulogne, came off just before tolls and going down the hill forgot we were 5 tons, there is a 50kph limit down the hill above 3.5t, were doing about 60 and got flashed

I am hopeful they might look at photo of motorhome and not pursue it, or have any of you made same mistake and been pursued?

I am guilty as charged and will pay, but hope not to have to, I also fear that they might impose a maximum fine as they did to me the only other time I got stopped, not sure how the French system works whether they have set fines for how much over you are.

My last offence (really stupid on my part) I had removed my snooper as they are illegal in France but left the detector behind the rear view mirror, never really thought about that, stopped in a queue, police motorbike pulled me over and produced a printed translation of the offence, I tried to explain it was only a sensor, but it seems that alone is still an offence. The sheet said maximum fine 1000 euros, which is what he asked me for in cash having escorted me to a barracks. I carry that kind of cash so was able to pay, they added salt to the wound by sending me an further bill for 220 euros for disposing of the sensor they had impounded. A lesson learnt very hard[/QUOTE

We got flashed at the same one coming down early December, our post has been checked and nothing has arrived to date, so we may be lucky.

 

[Boringfrog]

Just been "flashed" today on A28 Sth of Abbeville 110kmph limit, I was doing 95kmph, camera flashed towards me? Was it for me or opposite lanes, didn't think cameras flashed towards you.

 

[9526]

If it was on your side of the road (near the barrier) it was for you, or the mad Frenchie overtaking you.

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[jongood]

Just been "flashed" today on A28 Sth of Abbeville 110kmph limit, I was doing 95kmph, camera flashed towards me? Was it for me or opposite lanes, didn't think cameras flashed towards you.

That one flashes me every single time. IMO CC 4500kgs limit is 100kph, always doing less than that, never heard anything.

 

[Zains Pops]

Some years ago approaching Calais in a car at about 95 mph I went past a radar gun mounted on a tripod back off the road in a road maintenance area. I was expecting to see a French plod over the next hill but no, so I forgot all about it and carried on. At the pay station there was a gendarme who had a little list of GB numbers. He pulled us over and after two hours and about 100euro later we continued to the ferry. Since I have tended to be more respectful of French speed limits. It was noticeable that the only drivers in the police office were all British!,

 

[ianandkath]

be carful on tool roads too. they know what time you enter and leave and work out your speed from that.
got caught a few times on the bike

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[jongood]

Some years ago approaching Calais in a car at about 95 mph I went past a radar gun mounted on a tripod back off the road in a road maintenance area. I was expecting to see a French plod over the next hill but no, so I forgot all about it and carried on. At the pay station there was a gendarme who had a little list of GB numbers. He pulled us over and after two hours and about 100euro later we continued to the ferry. Since I have tended to be more respectful of French speed limits. It was noticeable that the only drivers in the police office were all British!,

This is probably only because they can mail the ticket to the French, Germans etc. Our government does not YET exchange details.

 

[Larby]

Did the French ever introduce the cameras that they proposed to charge HGVs using the N roads? I know there was anger, especially in Brittany where gantries were vandalised.
Or has that piece of legislation joined the breathalyser?
EDIT:
After searching I have answered my own question

2. HGV ecotax charges and motorway tolls

Ecotax now abandoned
After three years of shilly-shallying, the French government has finally capitulated to protests by French and notably Breton truck drivers, and abandoned (at enormous cost) the "Ecotax" that should have come into effect on all main French non-toll dual carriageway routes.
Pending a decision on what to do with them, the ecotax gantries straddling main French non-toll highways are currently standing idle.
So for the time being, HGVs can continue to cross France toll-free by using alternative routes to the expensive motorways. However, this will certainly not last, and other solutions are being investigated. The ecotax gantries may still be put into service one day....
Meanwhile, more and more local authorities are banning transit by HGVS over 7.5 tonnes from sections of main road where there is an alternative motorway route available.

 

[Zains Pops]

This is probably only because they can mail the ticket to the French, Germans etc. Our government does not YET exchange details.

More likely was that about 90% of the traffic was GB. The French do not exactly hold Calais in high regard and one Parisian I once met had never been there and could see no reason why he ever would. He considered the dark side of the moon to be more likely to attract him than Calais!

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[MR. FUSION]

Everything will change in 2017 the French (and all the other EU countries) will have legal access to the DVLA database and can fine and give you points as if you were in France......The UK will have to become part of the EU blanket driving legal system in 2017 which it has opted out of so far......YOU AND I HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

This is an informative guide to the new cross border legislation I mentioned http://etsc.eu/faq-eu-cross-border-enforcement-directive/