I recently received a photo radar ticket from Europe via my car rental company. Should I pay the ticket or ignore it? the payment goes to the country of issue (and a separate admin fee is paid to the rental company). The ticket does not have my name on it. Thanks.
European Photo Radar Ticket Advice
- Thread starter Bobo
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Country's photo radar took image of car and then sent notice to rental company who forwarded ticket to me. Country issuing ticket knows (at this time) the plate number only and not renter of said vehicle.
No. They merely are passing the ticket on to me for payment (or to contest the ticket).
Odd, assuming their photo radar program is like ours, the ticket is registered against the plate so if you walk away they'd have to pay. Perhaps it's different there?
I know the last time I rented a car in Canada the contract said that any tickets against the car would be charged to me.
I know the last time I rented a car in Canada the contract said that any tickets against the car would be charged to me.
You did the crime, now its time to pay up. If you are a decent citizen, all you're really asking about is minimizing the cost of the offence, and not about completely evading your responsibility. Presumably the ticket also summarized your options to contest its validity or minimize its penalty, but now that you're home, the economics likely say pay the face amount and consider it the price of the fun you had speeding on those great highways someone else's taxes paid for.
If you really are asking about evading adult responsibility, please never bring up children.
If you really are asking about evading adult responsibility, please never bring up children.
This happened to me. In July/August 2012 we were in Spain. The speed limit on the road was 100 km/h and I got clocked going 115 km/h. I didn't get the bill until January 2013. It was a registered letter I had to sign for and it was all in Spanish and Catalan. With a bit of Google Translate, I was on the phone with their version of the MTO. Apparently, they had sent the bill a few weeks after the infraction and it had taken months between the rental car company and the Transportation Department to figure out who it should be sent to. I was the only one licensed to drive the car and based on the photo they sent which was date stamped etc and the license plate on the car, it was 100% me. I spoke with a guy at the Transportation Department and he was grateful I agreed to pay. It was a 50 euro fine but it was supposed to be 100 euros, but there was some sort of deal as I was paying in time (ha ha). He confirmed to me that it would not be linked to my Ontario drivers licence and that if I was to go back to Spain the fine would be greater and it could lead to more problems. He also hinted that there was some sort of european database and I could get dinged if I wanted to rent a car in another european country.
What this did teach me is the craziness of spanish bureaucracy..no wonder the country is going down the economic toilet. I also told the guy that setting the trigger @ 115 km/h was pretty low and there would a lot of people getting caught at that speed.
