didn’t quite understand your info, i got a nice letter from germany for speeding back in november but it was filed in the round cabinet - 82kph in a 60 limit in roadworks on the A27, no wasting time like here asking for photo evidence as they attach photos of the vehicle, number plate and even my smiling face!
jj72:
didn’t quite understand your info, i got a nice letter from germany for speeding back in november but it was filed in the round cabinet - 82kph in a 60 limit in roadworks on the A27, no wasting time like here asking for photo evidence as they attach photos of the vehicle, number plate and even my smiling face!
The photo also used to show the passenger as well but this was stopped after one guy lost his marriage because the wife opened the speeding fine letter to see a picture of him with his girlfriend. He took it to court on the grounds of ‘private information breach’ and something similar to the data protection act (my translation from German isn’t too good) and won his case, although he still got done for speeding.
Now the photo will come with a blackout square over the passenger area, unless you are ‘foreign’ registered vehicle.
What Brit Pete is saying that, even though you don’t hold a German driving licence, when you get ‘done’ they will open a file on you and so the next time you get ‘done’ they will know it’s not your first offence etc.
Bear in mind that (for car drivers) 40 kmph over in a year (i.e. get done for 20 kmph twice in 12 months) equals a one month ban… Fines/bans etc are much worse for vocational drivers. If you clocked up enough points in your German file you could effectively be banned from driving in Germany until the ban period had expired. How would you feel phoning the gaffer to ask if he can fly a spare driver out to you as you’ve just been banned for two months (but only in Germany!!)?
Flensburg and DVLA will have opened ‘lines of communication’ as from 01 April although what they do with it, who knows??