Swiss speeding fine .....

[Por911T]

Long story short ....I was in Switzerland skiing in mid January using a Swiss hire car (BMW 320XDrive which was very good!) and I got caught doing 64kph in a 50kph limit . £176 (250 swiss francs) fine. Has anyone been in this situation before regarding a foreign speeding ticket ? Has anyone conveniently ignore it ? (not that Id ever do that :-) ....if so what happened ?

Just looking for general thoughts & opinions on the matter

Thanks Barry (Lanarkshire)

[LeoZwalf]

FIL had similar albeit in his own, Italian registered car. He paid it - I questioned the need to do so and was told that one doesn't simply ignore Swiss speeding fines! (and that's coming from an Italian...)

Pay up, learn from it and move on. Oh and do NOT speed in CH, ever!

[Por911T]

LeoZwalf ......... now that the kind of feedback you ignore at your peril ! Many thanks means a lot....don't really want to get involved in any legal guff so I suppose pay up is the best policy ! I must say the driving in Switzerland was extremely mannerly & courteous !

Thanks

[athol]

Don't ignore it, they will ban you from driving in Switzerland. Forever.

When you next go there and stop at the border to buy a motorway tag, they'll cross reference it and that's that.

Not worth it.

[bigblock]

In general you have 30 days to pay the ticket otherwise it goes to a Swiss Judge. The Judge will usually impose a much larger fine for non payment in the allotted time. If you are going to pay it then I would do it sooner rather than later !

If the Swiss authorities had to obtain your details from the hire car company then it is not uncommon for the hire car company to charge you an 'administration' fee. Check you credit card statement just in case.

[sherman]

Pay it unless you never want to go skiing in Switzerland again.

[p5hrr]

Same thing happened to me in the 1990s in my Porsche 911 in Holland, I never paid the fine. It then went to court as an unpaid fine and I was lifted for it in the 2000s in Schiphol Airport from my Passport. I had to pay both fines before I was released back into the airport from the Police cell's.
Also last year whilst working in Germany, using a hired Porsche 911, banned for 1 month in Germany for doing 130KPH in a variable 130KPH / 90KPH / 50KPH zone, it was 50KPH at the time.
I only found out about the ban, when trying to hire a car the next month in Germany. I got a Eu 150 fine and Eu 50 from the hirecar company for the paperwork.