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I was not aware of the 14 day rule. That's a great point, thank you. I will fill their online complaint form shortly. I shall update this post when I hear back from them.

Cheers

You stated "Upon my return I saw that I have a PCN that was issued by APCOA on 19/12/25 (one month AFTER)"

Did the PCN arrive by post or was it on the windscreen of the car?

Hi all

This may be an immediate dead end but worth asking the experts.

I was driving an Enterprise rental car from a Swiss branch through France.

Am I right in assuming the whole NtK/NtH and PoFA 2012 doesn't apply to fines from French authorities? As in, I can't just say 'You can't prove it was me', can I?

I've also read that French authorities will just write off a fine for a car with a non-French plate, but I'm not sure I want to take the risk.

The fine is €90 and Enterprise just took their cut (admin fee of 50 Swiss Francs) automatically from my credit card today.

I was approaching a toll booth on the motorway but didn't think about it being a speed controlled zone (probably zoned out for a second) and saw a flash. The ticket stated I was fined with doing 75 kph in a 50 kph.

Any insight would be much appreciated, but I'm prepared to have to pay the fine.

Thanks

The French will not chase a speeding penalty normally because they cannot obtain a UK registered vehicle keeper's details.  Although France and Switzerland have an agreement on exchange of details for motoring offences if the hirer is a UK licence holder I suspect the hire company just charges their fee, notifies the French and the ticket is written off.
 
If the only paperwork you have is a letter from the hire company and you have not received an 'Avis de Contravention' French speeding ticket in your name you can't pay the fine anyway.

Quote from: NewJudge on January 08, 2026, 11:03:08 pm

I'm not too sure why Roy asked the question.

Not speaking for him but I've seen on other forums where there is an assumption that if you are in possession of both a UK and an EU driving licence then you can present one and keep the other one clean.

So Pawel, originally from Gdansk but now living in Colchester, gets 6 points for speeding and hands over his Polish driving licence - his UK licence remains clean and if insurers check the DVLA database when he comes to reinsure his vehicle they'll find nothing.

The assumption is wrong but it seems to have legs.

Because foreign licence holders get UK points added to a UK ghost licence?  About 20,000 a year apparently.

 

That's a speed table not a crossing point at pavement level. There are signs for speed humps at the entry to the road.

Thank you @FuzzyDuck. Looking through the evidence, the camera was a LTI 20.20 Ultralyte 1000 mobile speed camera, so it must be one of the mobile sites. Before I ask the constabulary for photos, would you have the 2 locations of both known mobile cameras?

Many thanks and kind regards

Opposite Wickes and RTC Business Park are two reported locations but a mobile camera could, by definition, be virtually anywhere. .

Hi All,
I hope you are well.
I wonder what is the best software to use to spot speed cameras.

I use Waze for quite some time but I don't know if this app is up to speed with all the changing conditions on UK roads.

They also changed the way the pop ups appear on the screen including the speed camera warnings.
They changed something after an update and these pop ups now take the bottom 1/4 of the screen and I cannot even see the speedometer.
If it's an average speed check then these pop ups come up every so often which is pretty annoying.
Please advise.

My car oe inbuilt sat nav shows the speed limit and the vehicle speed at top left hand corner and beeps if the limit is exceeded.  In average speed camera sections it shows vehicle speed and average speed  between cameras.

If you want a paid  app that is updated weekly try https://www.pocketgpsworld.com/

This is the car identified so not the red one.

I think we've seen this box before - it doesn't look compliant to me as goes back way beyond the fire station.

It's probable the fire appliances turning left from the fire station would require a wide swing into oncoming traffic.  Hence box moved far enough back to allow that manoevre

From what I've heard, most if not all EU insurances cover the vehicle rather than specific named drivers. As others have said, there's not much overseas police can or will do to find the driver. Was he from an EU country? Since the B word the UK has lost access to EU driver records, and the same applies to EU countries losing access to the DVSA database.

Before Brexit it's reputed the UK police forces never  applied to EU countries for 'owner' details.
France did issue penalty notices to UK RKs, initially in French, and, just before Brexit, in an English language version.