French speed camera's (1 Viewer)

[Reusables]

Anyone know what happens if a French speed camera flashes you?



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[Landy Andy]

Nothing. Now we are not in EU. Also they often flash thinking you area lorry with a lower speed limit.

 

[Reusables]

Nothing. Now we are not in EU. Also they often flash thinking you area lorry with a lower speed limit.

Does this also apply for parking tickets?


My friend is a bad man

 

[David and Sally]

I don't think DVLA share your details with France but I'm not certain what would happen if you returned to France with unpaid fines. Guillotine??

 

[EuroTrotters]

I was flashed near Reims in my Van (not Moho) 2005, never got a ticket
I got flashed at the tunnel towards Monaco, hire car I was being tailgated by a Mercedes Limo, I was trying to get out of the way) 2010, never got a ticket.

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[Vintner]

I have had several tickets from cameras on travels through France (car rather than motorhome). It comes through with my name slightly wrong so they don't have it from the DVLA but they do have my licence plate and name from somewhere. Time for a new car perhaps? Fines are relatively small and no points obviously so tend to pay and forget about it rather than risk some sort of recrimination when I next go to France.

 

[Lenny HB]

Got flashed on our last trip about a week ago fairly certain I was only doing about 84kph so within tolerance, probably flashed due to the height of the van.

 

[SM0129]

I've been flashed quite a few times- I think the camera picks up a large vehicle and flashes, thinking it is an HGV- My van is sub 3,500kg and I have never had a fine to date

 

[Tea Bag]

Hi.
As SMO129. Have been flashed several times in France,they must check the photo's and see that it/you are in a mo-ho.....LONG may it stay the same.
Tea Bag

 

[POH]

I've been flashed quite a few times- I think the camera picks up a large vehicle and flashes, thinking it is an HGV- My van is sub 3,500kg and I have never had a fine to date

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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[Richard n Ann]

Me too, flashed at least twice, not heard anything

Got a parking ticket by the local Spanish police too 4 years ago, they keep sending reminders every year. I'd pay it but there were no signs up and the police said I wouldn't be fined.
I'll pay it when the van gets impounded

 

[Reusables]

Me too, flashed at least twice, not heard anything

Got a parking ticket by the local Spanish police too 4 years ago, they keep sending reminders every year. I'd pay it but there were no signs up and the police said I wouldn't be fined.
I'll pay it when the van gets impounded

They actually got a digit wrong on our van ..I mean my friends van.

 

[Richard n Ann]

They actually got a digit wrong on our van ..I mean my friends van.

They did on our van on some of the paperwork I looked the reg number up and it was a white audi A1

 

[TinaLes]

Yes it would be a worry to most of us getting flashed anywhere in France, returning home, fingers crossed that we will hear nothing, or should we get a fine, pay it?, or ignore it?, from what I read on here in the recent past, most seem to be advised to pay any fines, just in case its recorded against your number plate, should you return to France, you could well incur further late payment fines.
I am wondering how & when this check would be carried out as most border crossings are happy to just see your passports, plus any Covid related paperwork, then wave you on.
Then again maybe if you were unfortunate enough to be pulled over for a full docs check, inc V5 ownership, then maybe that's when the unpaid fines would show up on their system, especially if you have an A Frame with a toad on the back, well you are asking for it then.
LES

 

[Itsmcb]

I got flashed in Bristol at 1.00am on the M4 on my way back from France in September. The bloody camera was just past the 40mph temporary sign approaching roadworks. I was fuming as I was already slowing down and there was NOTHING ELSE behind or in front of me so didn't bother to brake. I was still probably 1/2 a mile from the first cones so would have been down to 40mph by the time I reached them anyway. I had to do a 'motorway awareness' course to save the 3 points.

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[Richard n Ann]

I got flashed in Bristol at 1.00am on the M4 on my way back from France in September. The bloody camera was just past the 40mph temporary sign approaching roadworks. I was fuming as I was already slowing down and there was NOTHING ELSE behind or in front of me so didn't bother to brake. I was still probably 1/2 a mile from the first cones so would have been down to 40mph by the time I reached them anyway. I had to do a 'motorway awareness' course to save the 3 points.

Some of the speed limits are ridiculous aren't they, we come home during the night and I always wonder if the cameras are active for the roadwork speed limit.
I feel as though someone could run into the back of us if I slow down that much.

 

[gus-lopez]

It comes through with my name slightly wrong so they don't have it from the DVLA but they do have my licence plate and name from somewhere.

Do you have a French emissions sticker?
Do yo have a Dart Charge account?
Are you registered with Transport for London?

 

[royandsharont]

Not exactly related to France but when Portugal first introduced their new toll motorways, where you registered a card against the VRM and the the ANPR cameras then picked up your use in the motorway, I had the pleasure of speaking to one of their ‘Toll‘ Police patrols.

He explained the new system and said if you were caught by camera having not paid etc then their system retained your VRM and when it @gainbsaw you on the motorway it alerted the patrols to your presence and they came looking for you.

All sounded very feasible and efficient

 

[Vintner]

Do you have a French emissions sticker?
Do yo have a Dart Charge account?
Are you registered with Transport for London?

No, I don't think I have any of those. Have SANEF autoroute tag - that was the only other thing I could think of. Doesn't really explain the spelling mistake on my name - unless some bored french admin person had to type them all in manually.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Not exactly related to France but when Portugal first introduced their new toll motorways, where you registered a card against the VRM and the the ANPR cameras then picked up your use in the motorway, I had the pleasure of speaking to one of their ‘Toll‘ Police patrols.

He explained the new system and said if you were caught by camera having not paid etc then their system retained your VRM and when it @gainbsaw you on the motorway it alerted the patrols to your presence and they came looking for you.

All sounded very feasible and efficient

We stopped at the "foreigner" service toll booth thing when we first went into portugal. Put the credit card in, registered it and it gave us a receipt... We carried on our way and a couple of days later I noticed the number plate had beed read wrong by 1 digit , never got any bills
I thought if we had got stopped it's their error not mine

That's twice our number plate has been miss read

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[Ingwe]

Got flashed on our last trip about a week ago fairly certain I was only doing about 84kph so within tolerance, probably flashed due to the height of the van.

I hadn’t realised that the height of the van triggered a camera. I was flashed three weeks ago when I was confident I was within the limit. Just outside Auxerre. I haven’t heard anything yet but was certain I wasn’t speeding.

 

[Wizz]

I got flashed on route back to Calais just prior to lockdown, thought nothing of it. Received a ticket about 2 weeks later when back in the UK.

 

[Orion]

I got flashed in Bristol at 1.00am on the M4 on my way back from France in September. The bloody camera was just past the 40mph temporary sign approaching roadworks. I was fuming as I was already slowing down and there was NOTHING ELSE behind or in front of me so didn't bother to brake. I was still probably 1/2 a mile from the first cones so would have been down to 40mph by the time I reached them anyway. I had to do a 'motorway awareness' course to save the 3 points.

I’ve been done on the M4/M5 interchange at Bristol - where the ‘Variable Speed Limit’ signage begins. Sunday night at 23.30 no other vehicles around and there were no speed restrictions indicated on the overhead signs - but the cameras on the side of the gantries are active 24/7 and will still nail you above the 70 mph limit (plus the variable they add on). Apparently it’s the same at all the Smart Motorway sections and junctions.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

When you get back to the border crossing at Calais they will pull you in,search your van and take goods to the value of the fine.

 

[vzac]

Anyone know what happens if a French speed camera flashes you?



Asking for a friend

It nearly blinds you if head on and rd wet. I know 8 could not see properly for ages, swore to get sun glasses on the rds in france after that. For us nothing happened, but it was 10 yrs ago nr bergerac.

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[Itsmcb]

I’ve been done on the M4/M5 interchange at Bristol - where the ‘Variable Speed Limit’ signage begins. Sunday night at 23.30 no other vehicles around and there were no speed restrictions indicated on the overhead signs - but the cameras on the side of the gantries are active 24/7 and will still nail you above the 70 mph limit (plus the variable they add on). Apparently it’s the same at all the Smart Motorway sections and junctions.

If I'd been aware of the fixed camera on the gantry I would have slowed down before it but the circumstances at the time didn't warrant braking... or so I thought.

 

[Itsmcb]

One of the interesting points I gleaned from my course is that the orange (or yellow) flashing speed signs are only advisory, the ones on smart motorways are compulsory and the various speeds start (and end) directly under the signs. It's down to the driver to pay attention to the signs up ahead and slow in time. Good practice for French speed limits

 

[Monty777]

I have been flashed last year and the year before in France-fine turned up at home which I paid both time-I think it was 30 or 35 euros so no big dea. We also got a parking ticket in Biscarosse Plage last year which basically said we had to go to the Hotel de Ville to pay-ignored that one. There were no “No Parking” signs visible-turns out it was a permanent ban on overnight parking in the town boundary-but you needed to know the local by laws to know. We parked at about 22:45 and by 08:00 we had a ticket…….bloody French!

 

[TinaLes]

Have you ever heard of anyone getting done for speeding through the average speed cameras in The UK? I personally haven't yet, but then I set the cruise control for the say 50MPH limit and just sit it out until the road clear sign come up. The reason I ask is that I always seem to get some impatient person overtaking me, going a lot faster than they should.
I think that average speed cameras are a great idea, as they seem to keep traffic flowing better, and most people behave themselves better, less lane changes just before junctions especially.
LES