Translation help - SPeeding Ticket..

[Marcellus]

OK I've been a naughty boy (141 in a 130) in our French Registered car.

So I've got a €159 fine to pay, and all the paperwork that goes with it.

I think it's a points deductable offence so need to declare I'm on a UK licence too.

So, can anyone with better French than me help out with the paperwork?

Cheers
Marcellus

[PottyMouth]

PM me if you like.

[leyorkie]

You can pay the fine on line and don't worry about the points they can't put them on your UK licence.
The record of points is kept at the town hall they don't mark a French licence the way we do in the UK, when you have too many points the Marie writes to you and you have to take a course to win some back. The ACO for one arrange for "Stages de Recuperation de Points" all over Northern France there will be some in your area but they are for Frence licence holders only.
You do not have to give your UK licence to any one.

[Paul 2000]

If you're French resident you can happily drive on your UK licence until you commit an offence. Strictly speaking you are then meant to change your UK licence for a French one. In reality most people don't bother - they just pay the fine, if it's something like speeding, and never hear another thing. However, I wouldn't rely on it - I know one chap near me who got done for speeding twice who just paid the fines. A couple of months later the gendarmes came round his house and insisted he change his UK licence to French. Another person I know drives on a UK licence and has been caught twice (by the same fixed camera!) and just paid the fines and hasn't heard a thing for over a year. Finally another (not a mate) got done for drink driving on a UK licence. Immediately confiscated, 3 month ban, large fine and a trip to some assessment place to make sure he didn't have an alcohol problem and that it was just an error of judgement. HAD to change his licence to French so they could take the points off. You start with points and they take them a way here. As with a lot of things in France the rules seem a bit blurred.