French speeding ticket GRrrrr

Grrrr

What you doing in france anyway. Its full of Frogs. Try Germany if you want a Good time. People are nicer,food is better, beer is fantastic and driving is more polite. The german Police treat visitors with respect unlike the French who treat us Brits as an inconvenience. Been there once. Never going Back.
 
me and the dog said:
What you doing in france anyway. Its full of Frogs. Try Germany if you want a Good time. People are nicer,food is better, beer is fantastic and driving is more polite. The german Police treat visitors with respect unlike the French who treat us Brits as an inconvenience. Been there once. Never going Back.
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I hope you have a tin hat one or two francophiles in these parts:baby:

Channa
 
For me it was 88 in an 80 zone. It was somewhere I've been many times and totally knew there was a camera there, so I thought, it's ok I'm doing under 90. Imagine my surprise that I'd got a ticket and that it was in an 80kmph area. Since when did those exist I thought? Well, since last year it turns out, when all(?) the 90 kmph areas became 80kmph! No clear speed signage. Maybe they're going to pay for that from speeding fine revenues!
 
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Jim Crow said:
For me it was 88 in an 80 zone. It was somewhere I've been many times and totally knew there was a camera there, so I thought, it's ok I'm doing under 90. Imagine my surprise that I'd got a ticket and that it was in an 80kmph area. Since when did those exist I thought? Well, since last year it turns out, when all(?) the 90 mph areas became 80kmph! No clear speed signage. Maybe they're going to pay for that from speeding fine revenues!
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You have not being paying attention to forums at the back there - the subject has been on various forums for about 6 months.

Geoff
 
Its so easy when driving to drift over the 80 km limit. But I,ve just found a facility on my sat nav which chimes when I go over any limit except 80 on a 3 lane rd thats 90 on the 2 lane side
 
Driving back through Frogland last week I noticed a 90kph limit on some dual carriageway stretches.

Should one keep to 80 on these bits?

Must admit I’m confused.com on all this & so is my satnag.
 
Lee said:
The difference is that the trunk roads in Derbyshire aren't straight for mile up on mile with no hedges or walls, they are twisty with poor visibility and most people would find it difficult to exceed the limit.
Having driven on both I can assure you it is much simpler to exceed the limit in France than in Derbyshire.
I followed the speed limit, much to the frustration of some of the locals.

Also until you have driven in France since the new speed limits, it is wrong to criticise people who get caught, it isn't as easy as you think to drive at 80kpm on a empty straight road when youre driving a long way.
I have a cruise control and on an undulating road the speed can vary by more than 5 percent.
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Surely this is the same for all speed limits, whether it’s 80, 90 or whatever.
We live in France ( so can criticise ) and in the last 7 months have driven over 11000 miles here, without a speeding ticket. You just need to keep to the speed limit ( or just below) the same as anywhere else in the world.
No excuse for speeding, all roads are clearly signed. If you set your cruise control for the correct speed by your speedo, the 5% variation in speed is more than made up for the fact that speedos are set to be 10% under the proper speed
 
mark61 said:
Dual carriegeways aren't covered by the 80 kmh limit.
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They are. The 90km limit only applies if the dual carriageway has a separation zone or barrier bewteen opposing carriageways, but not if it is just a white line separating them.
 
Snapster said:
Surely this is the same for all speed limits, whether it’s 80, 90 or whatever.
We live in France ( so can criticise ) and in the last 7 months have driven over 11000 miles here, without a speeding ticket. You just need to keep to the speed limit ( or just below) the same as anywhere else in the world.
No excuse for speeding, all roads are clearly signed. If you set your cruise control for the correct speed by your speedo, the 5% variation in speed is more than made up for the fact that speedos are set to be 10% under the proper speed
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Firstly, us folk that live in the UK are used to cruising at 59.5 in the UK when on a straight clear road, whereas, as you live in France. you have become used to the lower limit.

Secondly, you assume that we all have cruise control in our vehicles.
 
Last time i got flashed was at the beginning of May 2018 and not received a ticket, This year no flashes :dance:
 
nicholsong said:
They are. The 90km limit only applies if the dual carriageway has a separation zone or barrier bewteen opposing carriageways, but not if it is just a white line separating them.
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If there is just a white line seperating opposite directions, it ain't a dual carriageway, regardless of how many lanes make up the road. A dual carriageway has to have some kind of dividing strip or barrier. Number of lanes in either direction does not constitute a dual carriageway, the barrier does.
 
Full-Timers Speeding Tickets?

Got me thinking, - Has any full-timers been given a retrospective ticket? Curious if the system will catch up with them.
Even after ******, (whenever it happens), speeding tickets will be sent i reckon, we are still European and driving laws will stay the same. Truckers have to still use the roads as us MHers will do and general visitors in cars.
 
Caz said:
Firstly, us folk that live in the UK are used to cruising at 59.5 in the UK when on a straight clear road, whereas, as you live in France. you have become used to the lower limit.

Secondly, you assume that we all have cruise control in our vehicles.
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If drivers can't adapt their cruising speed to match the signed limits then perhaps they shouldn't drive abroad, (or at all?)

Most of us have a cruise control, it's called a right foot :(
 
Amazing that the French can send Uk Drivers speeding tickets BUT the Uk cannot send French Drivers tickets as the Police do not have access to the information regarding French Drivers. The French are not daft. Only the Uk would let the DVLA SELL Driver Information to whoever wants it and is willing to pay.

As for speed cameras in France we saw them setting up one of their new cameras last year at the side of the road. Small white trailer with doors on the back open and you could see the camera lens in the back. They leave them unattended and they just look like a trailer thats been abandoned. We also noticed a camera in Chateaudun in the 50km zone. It was in a car parked at the side of the road. They are getting very sneaky. We have an A Class so over 3500kg but how do they tell the difference between us and one thats under 3500kg.

They are now using ordinary cars and small vans with cameras and with modern technology they can flash you if they are coming towards you or following you. Don't expect to find speed limit signs coming into villages the sign with the village name on IS the 50km sign and cameras can be located just after the signs.

Looks like the Spanish have now adopted the French speed limits so its going to be a 50mph drive down later in the year. The main difference is the Motorway speed limit is 110 kph in France and 80kph in Spain for vehicles over 3500kg.
 
We have just recently agreed to give car registration details to the French authorities, along with the Irish and a couple of other countries. Prior to that the only way you could get a ticket was to be physically stopped. Hence the number of Brits going hell for leather off the ferry and getting away with it up until now. I've been driving through France, for work, for about 15 years and they have always used speed cameras in old cars by the side of the A20, which is mostly toll free, as a means of raising revenue. The really nasty cameras are the hand held ones by a gendarme hiding behind a tree with a few mates further down the road to stop you, often accompanied by a British policeman to help in translating "you're nicked".
 
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