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Yesterday I signed for a recorded delivery letter. When I opened it
there was a document, all in Spanish, of what looked like a Spanish road speed fine for 140 euros (with 30% discount for payment within 30 days). The fine seems to be for a speeding offence on 4th July 2009 (more than 5 months ago). The document appears to be claiming a speed of 122km in a 90 km speed zone. I obviously cannot recall that far back if I were driving at that high speed on the particular road (N110) that the document mentions. I am not happy that I cannot understand the full contents of the document and I am unwilling to pay without knowing what the full penalty is (apart from the money). Can you please offer any advice?
there was a document, all in Spanish, of what looked like a Spanish road speed fine for 140 euros (with 30% discount for payment within 30 days). The fine seems to be for a speeding offence on 4th July 2009 (more than 5 months ago). The document appears to be claiming a speed of 122km in a 90 km speed zone. I obviously cannot recall that far back if I were driving at that high speed on the particular road (N110) that the document mentions. I am not happy that I cannot understand the full contents of the document and I am unwilling to pay without knowing what the full penalty is (apart from the money). Can you please offer any advice?
Asked on 6 March 2010 by T.Z., via e-mail
Answered by
Honest John
A pan European Directive, which is a licence to crooks and conmen, allows the collecting and enforcement of cross-border fixed penalties throughout the EC. Our hamstrung DVLA simply feeds keeper details to any official or pseudo official body that asks for them and the penalties can be enforced in UK courts. The Camorra in Italy no longer needs to sell drugs to make billions of Euros in this way, and it now seems neither does the Guardia Civil.
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