France Speed Enforcement

[st13phil]

The law in France regarding sat-nav's is that they can alert you to an area which contains a speed camera, but not the precise location of any cameras. Both Garmin and TomTom sat-nav's support this concept of camera “zones” for France.

 

[BTB 500]

Yup many Satnavs use alternative (and legal) ways to warn of speed cameras in France. TomToms alert you to "danger zones":

Danger Zones service in France

 

[Petrol Pete]

I wonder whether the French authorities will be able to get details from DVLA after Brexit...?

For this question to be answered Brexit must first become a reality.......over to you Boris.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

The law in France regarding sat-nav's is that they can alert you to an area which contains a speed camera, but not the precise location of any cameras. Both Garmin and TomTom sat-nav's support this concept of camera “zones” for France.

Yup many Satnavs use alternative (and legal) ways to warn of speed cameras in France. TomToms alert you to "danger zones":

Danger Zones service in France

Hands up who wants to stand at the side of a French Autoroute arguing the law with a surly French copper?

 

[C36fan]

Indeed, its illegal to use a speed camera detector in France along with other countries.

"French police law states that it is forbidden to carry any device that can detect the use of speed cameras. This also includes devices such as Sat Navs that you can set them to inform you of any speed cameras that you are approaching; this is usually set on your POI "

but every time that is a speed camera theres a road sign informing you...

 

[C36fan]

just came back from Portugal and I stuck to the speed limit "" and all is good.

 

[zipdip]

Sorry I mislead people I should have said that my Gamin puts up the speed limits ,not speed cameras,I found it a life saver on the local roads with the speed limit varying every few miles,as always keep below the limit,in a country that seems to be going after us using it's roads.

 

[rf065]

just came back from Portugal and I stuck to the speed limit "" and all is good.

Don't count your chickens, in Euroland, the fine can still come through the post up to a year after the offence.

 

[219]

Yup many Satnavs use alternative (and legal) ways to warn of speed cameras in France. TomToms alert you to "danger zones":

Danger Zones service in France

Cue the song from ‘Top Gun’ .

 

[BTB 500]

Sorry I mislead people I should have said that my Gamin puts up the speed limits ,not speed cameras,I found it a life saver on the local roads with the speed limit varying every few miles

Handy on German autobahns too, where the limit varies from 70 or 80 kph up to unlimited.

 

[400ixl]

I wonder whether the French authorities will be able to get details from DVLA after Brexit...?

That has already been answered. Yes they will, the UK will not be revoking such EU laws, they will just transfer into British law.

So deal, no deal or no brexit, the position will stay the same.

 

[markjay]

It is standard practice also in cases of sovereignity change, i.e. legislation that says that by default all old laws remain in place until specifically changed or revoked by the new regime.

The same will apply after October. There will most likely be an act of Parliament that will say that all current EU rules and standards will remain in place by default until changed or revoked by the UK. Otherwise we will have mayhem as off day one.

 

[od91]

I know of a couple of people who had their cars ceased on the spot in France! Not sure how much over they were going but from memory I don't recall it being daft.

 

[Williamwoo]

Probably worth noting that the national (non-Motorway) speed limit has recently been reduced from 90 to 80 km/h. I'm in the Charente Maritime at the moment in new-to-me Audi BiTdi (sorry) in glorious sunshine, the roads are wide and well-maintained and there's hardly any traffic - 80 km/h is so frustrating!

 

[Swotty]

Hands up who wants to stand at the side of a French Autoroute arguing the law with a surly and armed French copper?

Fixed it for you.

 

[Swotty]

As already said, lots of fixed cameras were vandalised by the GJs. The new ones are state of the art.

The flics over here are heavily into speed traps. Again, they have come to the game late so are equipped with all the latest technology which can get you from over 2kms away. Lots of them are unmanned, usually in dark coloured people carriers parked at the side of the road or in laybys, but the latest kit can now be contained in much smaller cars, according to the French motoring mags.

Favourite phrase ... "pompe à flics", accompanied by the action of pulling down the handle of a slot machine. Kerching!

Aside from speeding, it's also very noticeable that they are upping their scrutiny of drink-driving, so watch out for their stops on the outside of rural villages and towns at going home time. Dunno about the cities.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

The last couple of times we visited France I noticed that French registered cars were diligently obeying the speed limits on the Autoroute which I took as a sign that they must be well policed because as a rule the French tend to treat rules as a mere guideline.

 

[C36fan]

Don't count your chickens, in Euroland, the fine can still come through the post up to a year after the offence.

I didn't speed...

 

[rf065]

I didn't speed...

But you can never be 100% sure about that, everyone has crept over the limit at sometime or other without realising.

 

[chesterpiglet]

Sorry I mislead people I should have said that my Gamin puts up the speed limits ,not speed cameras,I found it a life saver on the local roads with the speed limit varying every few miles,as always keep below the limit,in a country that seems to be going after us using it's roads.

You really don't want to upset the Gendarmes here......... & even if you know you have done nothing wrong just apologise & repeat many times.