Speeding fine - points on licence
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Permalink Reply by Christa GIMBLETT on
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Permalink Reply by John Slate on -
I had a similar situation about five years ago when I had a UK Licence. I paid the fine online and waited to see what would happen next about adding the point to my licence. Nothing happened. After my UK licence expired I got a French one and was expecting the point to appear on it retrospectively. Thankfully, it wasn't. Unfortunately, I got caught by a camera on the autoroute going 2kmh over the limit about eighteen months ago. One point was added to my licence but this was removed after one year as I had not had another driving offence during the twelve month period. How different in UK. Since having my French licence I got caught in UK driving my English car. I tried to pay the fine online but this is not possible with a French licence. I subsequently received a summons and had to fill in pages of unnecessary questions including whether I was receiving housing benefit! I pleaded gulity, of course, and, eight months after the offence, paid the fine I could have paid in the first place and £15.00 costs. Seems the UK likes it's paperwork as well
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Permalink Reply by John Slate on
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Just read Christa's reply. Maybe I was lucky
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Hanks on -
Thanks for replying. I have spoken to numerous people on the subject and not one person was told to surrender their UK licence - they just paid the fine online, so I will do this for now and see what happens.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Tomlin on -
I recently got done for not stopping at a STOP junction. They wanted to give me points (or take them away as they do over here) But as I still had my UK licence, so they couldn't. I had to do a 2 day 'Recuperation des Points' course
at Poitiers! Cost 250€ plus 2 days loss of earnings. Not a happy bunny. I've got a French licence now!
Paul
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Hanks on
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Luckily I was not stopped by the gendarmes for speeding, just caught by radar/camera. I have paid the fine online - which was remarkably very easy. I will wait to see if I hear anything else. I am normally very careful with my speed (normally driving at the limit shown) and the French seem to get very annoyed with me and overtake all the time. This time I was doing 62 in a 50 zone which I know is wrong - c'est la vie!
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AdminPermalink Reply by Catharine Higginson on -
A friend got done for not stopping at a stop sign in a supermarket car park......
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Permalink Reply by Liane Edwards on -
I have also had a speeding fine, paid it online (actually I think I've had 2). Also have been stopped for not 'Stopping' at a stop sign (naughty girl). The gendarme said I should change my licence, haven't done so yet, paid the fine though. You believe you are supposed to change it if you have a fine, but I don't personally know anyone who has.
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Permalink Reply by Victoria Butcher née Richings on -
Hi Sandra
I had speed fines whilst i had a uk licence, i paid and that was it; but i was stopped once for no seat belt and fined. This type of offence it seems is different and involved gendarmes. I was asked by the local gendarmery, about a year later, to surrender my uk licence to be changed for french. Because i had committed an offence it is obligatory to change; you have to have a medical costing 24 euros with a named doctor too!
Victoria
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Permalink Reply by John Axson on -
Pay it quick on the internet and they dont even ask who was driving. Hence no points. You just have to be quick
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Permalink Reply by Ben Mongoose on -
In theory you should change your license when you commit an infraction of the "code du route" that is penalized by the retraction of points on a French driver's licence. In practice the authorities are not likely to act if you have one or two points to be retracted and you pay the fine asap. (unless you find yourselves face-to-face with a cop that doesn't like roast-beef)
But there's a risk: in theory your driver's license is invalid and since your initial ticket and the details of your license are registered, this can get ugly at the next stop-and-check by the police or the gendarmes. It will cost you 90 Euros in fines, an additional loss of 3 points and the obligation to change your license. These 3 points and the ones from the previous infraction will be deducted from your shiny new French license.
In some random cases the gendarmes will come by your house some time after the initial infraction and tell you to change your license. This gets more likely when you get more tickets.....
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Hearne on -
yep, code de la route and other laws state you have to change your licence once you commit an offence, but it took them half a dozen tickets before they summonsed me and made me exchange mine, the points come off automatically now and you get a letter after the fine, sometimes months after it, telling you you've lost points. the danger is being stopped by a zealous flic who may backtrack your fine's history, insist that you exchange your licence and put the boot in so you lose the points from previous fines too :-O
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