Austria - speeding tickets

bandit wrote:

AllyG wrote:

Ally

From the AA's European Driving Pages for Switzerland

A GPS based navigation system which has maps indicating the location of fixed speed cameras must have the 'fixed speed camera PoI (Points of Interest)' function deactivated.
Radar detectors are prohibited even if not switched on.

Detectors are illegal to use in many countries including Germany and Spain. Possessing them is illegal in many more countries including France, Finland, Belgium

bandit wrote:

The Swiss now make extensive use of overhead gantries on motorways to vary speed limits using electronic displays. On some of them as you pass under the gantry, you can see that the other side is a speed camera.

These can also be found on the M1, M25, M42, and M60 that I know of, and a lot of these gantry's have fixed speed cameras in.
I noticed one going off on the M1 southbound near Luton the other week as I was driving north so I know they work, and I also know of several people who have received fixed penalty notices in the post after being caught doing 70mph on the M42 and M25 whilst the signs were set to 60 on the overheads. One of these was my mother in law, who somewhat stupidly told me she "didn't see any sign saying 60" hahaha
I think they're pretty visible, personally.

Oops, I may have done it again :oops:.

Driving down from Munich to Mayrhofen last week, a red light flashed in front of me (near Kufstein) and I am concerned that this may have been a speed camera. I know that normally you see a bright white light flash from behind so this was unusual. Does anybody know if the Austrian's use a different form of camera?

Form some reason, the speed limit on the motorway on the Austrian side, according to the overhead gantries was 100kph while my TomTom was indicating 130kph. The roads were dry and clear so it was not clear to my why the lower limit was in place. In any event, this left me a little confused and obviously, I preferred to believe my seriously out of date Tomtom :roll: so it is possible that I might have been doing a little more than the 100kph indicated on the signs :hunf:.

Yep - speed camera.

Bonfire wrote:

andymol2 wrote:In short the only way you will have to pay it is if the care hire company do so on your behalf using the credit card details you gave them.

There are no powers to effectively collect speeding fines as speeding, not normally being an arrestable offence, can't be persued through the UK courts.

.

F! We paid a speeding fine of €80 as we were advised to but in my difference I was not driving

Ian Wickham wrote:And the Morel to these stories are don't speed and be aware of speed limits of the countries you are visiting.

I so admire these saints who tell use not to speed, it is all to easy especially in a hire car to creep over the limit, well for me it is.

Oh he's no saint trust me.