Post: #1

I've been doing a lot of driving lately and just realized that I need these things called vignettes to be affixed in my car to ride on the motor ways.

Well womp womp to me, i've driven through half of europe blissfully unaware of such a requirement. I drive a small 4 door car registered to me in the UK.

Damage done: driven through Germany, Czech Republic, and austria without a vignette. Learned my car has a nasty shake at around 110mph!

I'm going to be heading into Switzerland where I now know i'll be needing one so i'll pick it up at the petrol station.

What type of fines am I looking at for my previous violations? I already have 2 speeding camera flashes on me already

Post: #2

There is no such thing in Germany yet. It's still freie Fahrt für freie Bürger...

Post: #3

From what I can gather, I got really luck in Czechia as the police are the ones who run fines for not having one placed.

Austria, not so much. They have automated cameras which leads me to believe i'm looking at a 120 eur fine. Not bad. I'm curious how bad my speeding camera fines will be.

Post: #4

Don't speed, got 4 speeding tickets in about 8 hours driving around Northwest France. 50 euro a pop

Also got 5 tickets driving from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and back. Thank god only like $18US

Why can't they just pull people over like normal countries? Then again, we pay millions of dollars just to patrol highways in the usa

Post: #5

Dont go to Scandinavia. Depending on how much you speed and where you speed fines can be something like 1000-2000 Euros.

Post: #6

I would hope that you don't receive anything in the post and rely on the complications of issuing fines cross border, never mind the actual collection of the fines.

There is talk of the EU having some sort of joint points policy, can't wait for a Brexit, then we can see how they will collect the fines

Post: #7

Slovenia and Hungary require them, I think.

If you get caught, its a 300 Euro fine or 150 on the spot.

Post: #8

also, if you use the app Waze, it will alert you to the speed cameras. In europe they have cameras that issue tickets like they have in the U.S. for red lights at some intersections