I live in Germany, do I need to pay a uk speeding fine.?

Question

I have full German licence and reside in Germany and was caught at 42 mph in u/k. do I need to pay a fixed penalty fine or can I ignore it?

Answer 1

Just found this on the net. Part of June newspaper article traffic congestion charge in London and non payment by other EU drivers.

'But he said EU countries had recently agreed to "mutually recognise financial penalties" and that TfL would continue trying to recover the debts. '

Don't know if you are safe to try to avoid fine.

Answer 2

Since June this year there has been a bilateral agreement in place throughout the EU.

Should the German authorities be contacted by the DVLA (which they might not be) they will be legally bound to enforce the fine. Your licence however, is wholly safe.

Answer 3

ya, u should incase you might go back to the UK and a police officer catches you again.  At this point a date is set out for u to pay the fine, if you dont pay it on time, then a warrant will be sent out for your arrest.  If you get caught again, you'll get sent to jail for a day or so-maybe a couple of hrs?

Deep down you know u should.  Do the right thing.

Answer 4

I would safely say you can ignore it and do it with pleasure.

The uk is turning into a joke, The taxman is in your pocked for trying to breathe.

I once read about a guy in america who was a lawyer and he got fined 100 dollars for littering so he went to pay the fine only he had wiped his backside on 100 1 dollar bill notes. Every single one of them haha.

Suffice to say he was taken to court and punished for it but i have massive respect for that.

Answer 5

Well eventually your fine will become past due enough that you'll probably get a warrant for your arrest in the UK.  If you plan to never go back, then you're probably fine.  However, depending on the treaties Germany has with the UK, how often you commit crime, etc with a warrant you could be extradited back to the UK or even Germany could collect the fine on behalf of the UK.

Most likely with a speeding ticket, if you ignore it, you'll just eventually get a warrant for your arrest, which means you shouldn't ever go to UK territories ever again.

Answer 6

any fine, you should pay, no matter where you live. i would just pay it before things get out of hand, like you get arrested or you get a record.