Speeding cameras in England Spanish car

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:45am

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MORF

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Hello everyone,

I am resident in Spain and own a Spanish registered vehicle, which we have driven through France and am presently in England. Driving from the channel tunnel towards the west there were literally 100’s of speed cameras on the M20 motorway.

My question is, if the Spanish vehicle I was driving had inadvertently been photographed by a speed camera on the motorway. Does the U.K. authorities pursue traffic speeding fines to Spain - AFTER BREXIT?

I do not know if I have broken any speed limits as yet, however due to the abundance of speed cameras in Britain and driving a km/h Spain registered vehicle very difficult to access if I had gone over the speed limit.

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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:51am

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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:51am

Inadvertently? 🤣🤣🤣

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:55am

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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:55am

Short answer is Yes. The recent agreement on driving licence exchanges was made possible once the agreement to share vehicle and driver details was sorted out.

Same as with hiring a car. The car hire company can give your details to the DVLA (or whatever they are nowadays) and will be chased up.

Several posts elsewhere where drivers have received fines in the post after returning to Spain. Seems a German company has been set up to chase the fines.

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:20am

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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:20am

YES! Got 2 in Uk 4 in France in Germany and then Sweden....... expensive drive but oh so worth it :) loads of fun always kept the speed to 20 above in Swed before in case I lost my license..... now....... they can have money but not my license :)

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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:04am

MORF

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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:04am

marcliff wrote on Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:55am:
Short answer is Yes. The recent agreement on driving licence exchanges was made possible once the agreement to share vehicle and driver details was sorted out.
Same as with hiring a car. The car hire company can give your details to the DVLA (or whatever they are nowadays) and will be chased up.

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Several posts elsewhere where drivers have received fines in the post after returning to Spain. Seems a German company has been set up to chase the fines.

Thank you all for your assistance and information on this subject. I will have to now be extra careful.

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:55am

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:55am

If you just drive up to the limit then you will not receive a speeding ticket!! Simple!!!

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 8:35am

MORF

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 8:35am

Golandrina wrote on Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:55am:
If you just drive up to the limit then you will not receive a speeding ticket!! Simple!!!

WOW, I never knew that.

Your insight astounds me 😂😂

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:30pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:30pm

Golandrina wrote on Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:55am:
If you just drive up to the limit then you will not receive a speeding ticket!! Simple!!!

Goldandrina,

of course your absolutely right, everyone knows this but many ignore it? certainly the the poster above zooming around Europe hoovering up speeding tickets is not taking too much notice.

In general police in the UK make an allowance of 10% above the posted speed limit for "speedometer variances", though not always. Not sure if this is the same in Spain.

Aitch.