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Mister James
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Speeding abroad - they'll get you! Reply with quote
Telegraph story

Not good, for any of you tourers!

What bugs me is the huge amount of money it will cost. The expense of liason and data-sharing between european police departments and our own forces, plus enforcement, must surely more than eat up the cost of any fines.[/url]
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PostPosted: 14:55 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shame they aint as bothered as catching crooks that commit crime here and bugger off to other countries, like those "investment" scammers.
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The Road Safety Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, will give British police forces the power to fine foreign drivers on the spot.



I think thats positive though... ?
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PostPosted: 18:13 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
March 2007...

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PostPosted: 18:20 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rookie_biker wrote:
March 2007...

... we've got time. Laughing


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PostPosted: 20:07 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Re: Speeding abroad - they'll get you! Reply with quote
Mister James wrote:

What bugs me is the huge amount of money it will cost. The expense of liason and data-sharing between european police departments and our own forces, plus enforcement, must surely more than eat up the cost of any fines.[/url]

To be fair, we complain if they set out to make money from speeding fines, so can't complain too much if they're not.

I'm still not too bothered providing you don't get points.
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Mister James
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't care whether they make or lose money, in theory. In practise, the police ignore most crime because they claim not to have the resources to chase it up. Now they will be made to enforce the fines and punishments of another country, wasting yet more resources that could be used to improve our country's standard of living.
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PostPosted: 21:59 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Buggers.

One of my main joys when abroad, got stopped for doing 79 in a 30 in Ireland, what on earth were the going to do, extradite me.

(PS it was on an open limit road, that at the time had road works and it was night).
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PostPosted: 22:23 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
The European points systems are becoming more and more aligned with ours, it wouldn't suprise me if points started coming with the fines shortly after it's introduced.
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PostPosted: 22:39 - 15 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
In Finland you don't get points, but you do get fined based on your earnings last tax year. Last year, a rich brat was ordered to pay a fine of 170,000 euros (about £118,000)after being caught doing 80 km/h in a 40km/h zone!

The police & the courts have access to the Finnish Inland Revenue database, so this can be done, but doubt they'd get the data from the UK, so they'd just impose the fixed penalty.
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PostPosted: 10:18 - 16 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes but in Finland, if your a house wife, you can get off with something like a €30 fine.

This happend recently to some Formula 1 racing drivers, wife or girlfriend.

I was in Helsinki last month. Also managed to see a ice hockey match with Helsinki Jokerit.
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 16 Dec 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
mondeokid wrote:
This happend recently to some Formula 1 racing drivers, wife or girlfriend.

Yes, Mika Hakkinen's wife a couple of years ago. He himself wasn't as lucky!
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Also managed to see a ice hockey match with Helsinki Jokerit.
My home team, one that I've been supporting since the early 70s when they were still unfashionable. What did you think of the hockey? Good game, eh? I miss playing it!
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