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[ogm]

Just a heads up for anyone TDing in Spain.

Just had a nice surprise in the mail this morning, Nice picture of my hire car doing 131kph in a 100kph zone with associated paperwork demanding 300euro.

This was on the way back from Valencia heading to Alicante and I was doing well over the limit so no excuses, but during my research to see if I could weasel my way out of paying, found out they will do you for 1kph over the limit with a similar fine.

I paid up online which was a bit of a ball ache as the site is in Spanish and got a 50% reduction for coming quietly and paying quickly.

You could just say bollocks and not pay with zero chance of them chasing in over here but if you plan on driving in Spain again and get stopped for anything the fine will show up and you get arrested and the car impounded until the full fine plus anything else is settled.

Lesson learned, save speed for the track.

[HammyUK]

Issue is the Hire Car Mark - they will just go straight to the registered owner as  they do here.
Hire company will just then forward it on to you - normally with an "admin fee".
Standard practice world wide.
UK plated car won't get hit as they haven't got any agreements in place as yet BUT it'son its way apparently soon because of EU rules. Mainland EU already have it cross border.

[ZedThou]

I got hit whilst driving in Australia at Christmas.  Rather than pay the infringement notice, I requested that the offence be heard in court as you are entitled to  Got a letter three weeks later saying they would not be taking any further action and the infringement notice was cancelled.  This is because they cannot issue a summons to appear in court to someone outside Australia.  Same thing might work in Europe, but try it at your own risk