I have just received a fine from the Dutch plod for doing (I think) 59km/h in a 50 limit (I was on holiday in a hire car, not working).
Is it worth challenging this? The notification is obviously all in Dutch and when I was done over here I asked for a photo as proof.
What are the consequences of ignoring it? 
If it’s not worth challenging how do I pay? My Dutch is limited to ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and ‘one beer please’.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated 
They will probably chase the car hire company for it and they will bill your credit card for it.
I had a group of friends/ex-collegues, employed by an SK company worked in Germany and the employer provided them with a hire car - unlimited use, so they travelled all over the place.
Guys never worried about fines, binned all the tickets. Nobody ever chased them.
BUT, their employer did not really care what was on hire invoices, paid straightaway, so who know if the fines were not billed and paid…
Not sure about the credit card billing as Harry suggests; hire companies usually make a reservation on the card for damages etc (that you authorize), but that is lifted when you return the car or few days later. So I think, I am not an expert in the field.
Unless there’s better advice, wait for another letter. If nothing, forget about it (there may be some risks…), if something then pay…
The Dutch are very well organised and have probably authorised a hit squad to descend on your home with tear gas and helicopters. I should pay the fine, it will not affect your UK driving licence and they will have a photograph as someone I know ignored and then contested a German speeding ticket, the photo they sent back was as clear as a passport photo 
If you are absolutely positive that you are never going to Holland again, ever Just ignore it
I got caught on camera a few years ago in the tunnels in Basel coming back from holiday.The car is in my wife’s name,so when it came through the letterbox,via the Belgian authoraties,I told her to send it back and say I was driving.
Now,I still have a UK licence,so it was with some suprise that a few months later it popped through the letterbox again,with my name on it!
I have been caught in Holland speeding,but as it was in the truck,they sent it to the company and I had to pay it.
Strangely though,I’ve been snapped on camera quite a few times in Germany and never heard anything about it.
Thanks for the advice lads. I have been on an on-line translation site and it seems I was measured at 62 but in was ‘corrected’ at 59 - whatever that means 
Don’t really need to drive through Holland again but I’m allergic to tear gas so it’s a 48 Euro lesson learned 
the took 3kmh from the reading as a tolerance, just as when reading a analogue tacho
â– â– â– â– in Germany THEY WILL take off 6kmh as tolerance,
KW:
Strangely though,I’ve been snapped on camera quite a few times in Germany and never heard anything about it.
The German authorities dont chase fines in a forgein country under 70€
Geoff
gbtransp:
KW:
Strangely though,I’ve been snapped on camera quite a few times in Germany and never heard anything about it.The German authorities dont chase fines in a forgein country under 70€
Geoff
I can’t remember the details now, it was a while ago and we still dealt in DM, but I remember an unpaid fine coming through in English from an office in Manchester
Not sure about this but ive had my passport taken off me on a frieghter en route to belgium from ramsgate all i can think is there looking for unpaid fines maybe wrong here.
Hodgy67:
Not sure about this but ive had my passport taken off me on a frieghter en route to belgium from ramsgate all i can think is there looking for unpaid fines maybe wrong here.
But a passport will only last 10 years at the maximum, so when you renew there is no link to the old number
Wheel Nut:
Hodgy67:
Not sure about this but ive had my passport taken off me on a frieghter en route to belgium from ramsgate all i can think is there looking for unpaid fines maybe wrong here.But a passport will only last 10 years at the maximum, so when you renew there is no link to the old number
Are you sure cause after the10 years is up all you do is change the photo im sure they can check back 
Now a days the Germans will take a security Deposit, from those
persons who do not live in Germany, ie: Dutch driver, etc. etc. and, this covers the forth
coming fine normally,if you then say have either not paid enough and
get a letter through the post asking for more money, and you take no notice of the demand ,
Then be-aware that you particulars will be on the GERMAN police DATA bank as a non payer
of fine(s), and when you next get checked by the police and they use their
computer data bank, YOU will either get asked to pay up there and then or you will /may get
the cuffs put on and be taken to the station for a more detailed conversation,The German
police are one of the better forces and are fair, so pay up it saves lots of problems,