Martin wrote:
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> >It happened to me in Holland. I got the notice in the mail in October for
> >a speeding offence that happened in May. I was nailed by photo radar.for
> >the crime of driving 4 kph over the limit and a fine of 60 guilders. Photo
> >radar tickets go to the car owner or lessee.
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> You can challenge it in the Netherlands. I did and lost but had the pleasure of
> knowing that the challenge cost them more than it cost me.
It would have cost me a bundle to fight it. I could have ignored it, but you knows
what would have happened to me the next time I went to Europe, especially if I had
to make a connection in Schipol.
There are two things that got my goat. First of all, the speed limit had dropped.
I had been coming south through f the National Forest and the road had a 80 kph
speed limit. We stopped for a few minutes at Otterlo. Then we got back on the road
and I was speeding up to what I thought was the 80 kph limit when I spotted the
photoradar sign with the 50 kph limit, so I immediately slowed down. It was the same
quality road and same lack of residential area so no reason to expect the limit to
have dropped. They nailed me for a measly 4 kph over. When we had photo radar
here there was a 12-15 kph allowance.
> I was flashed twice
> by a brand new traffic light that had been set up wrong. The light went directly
> from green to red with no orange. A police spokesman denied that such a thing
> was possible.
How would he know what was possible? He is not the technician that works with those
lights.
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