itxrd

Been back 7 weeks since a reccie trip to Melbourne and got an unpleasant surprise through the letterbox. 2 traffic infringements of $142 each!! We'd hired a car while out there you see. The fines are for driving at 109km/h and 106 km/h in 100 km/h zones but the worst of it is that they are 19 mins apart!

Does anyone have any experience of this and reckon I have a chance by appealing? Am hoping at least 1 gets quashed. Even thought of just ignoring them but when we eventually move to Oz am sure the fines probably won't have disappeared ;-)

Any advice would be much appreciated

The Bloke

Don't know if they are kept on record but usually it is pretty much a case of cop it sweet, although if you have the time and expense of fighting it in court, as it has been known for people to overturn the fines. They shouldn't appear against your UK licence, however you maybe kept on the records of the car hire industry as a fine defaulter, if not paid, which may hamper accessiblity to hire cars, but again I'm not sure.

Oh, BTW, I read in a newspaper article several years ago, that a woman taking her kids to school in Melbourne racked up enough points in one day in speedtraps (3)to receive a letter asking for her to show cause why her licence shouldn't be suspended. She then proceeded to whinge on a crappy current affairs tv show about her treatment.

Red_V_Roger

Tell the money making gits to get stuffed, but it probably wont get you anywhere!

POW148

Victoria is well known for being very savage when it comes to speeding fines. If you intend to come back to Australia, then I would just cop the fines. If you do not intend to return, then I would ignore the fines.

Barney

carlap

After reading on this or another forum, you can write to vic roads, fess up to the offence and they reduce the first offence to a warning.

I did this 3 months after I actually paid the fine and got a demerit point. They removed the point and refunded the fee. Said I was new and keeping up with traffic, otherwise get tailgated - but have learnt my lesson and although it is a challenge, keep to limits.

If you have time left to pay, just try the letter first (you should be able to pay online at the last minute).

Might be a problem with 2 offences, but you never know seeing as they were so close together

itxrd

Thanks so much for all of your comments. I have long enough to write to them and see what they say so will try that. Will take carlaps advice on keeping up with traffic ;-)

Will let you all know how it goes. Sure does put you off melbourne. We even got a parking ticket while out there (not going to pay that) + the tolls were a pain (esp as you have to call them and pay it). Seems like they have a money making scheme all set up there.

- Rom the tight fisted Indian ;-)

MartinH

Why the hell would they let you off?

Could always run off to Brazil - become an international fellon.













































Just pay up and don't waste peoples time

K14

We had something similar - dh appealed against ours as he had set the car on cruise control at the speed limit, so the car shouldn't have gone over it. The other thing was that the sat nav bleeps when you go over the limit and he wasn't aware that he had. I think that one of our was only 6 km/h over the speed limit so he thought that there was room for error on their speed measurement (!).

Surprisingly he got a letter back with a "warning" and them saying that they wouldn't take it any further this time, no penalty to pay & no points.

itxrd

Thanks K14. There you go Carslap. 2 people here have said they had theirs overturned and wouldn't be surprised if I do thanks to peoples advice here.

So take your whinging and stop wasting our time ;-)

hoofie2002

If you gave the car hire firm a credit card when you hired the car it's possible the car hire firm will charge you for the tickets anyway.

itxrd

Oops, I meant there you go MartinH. Sorry Carlap!

itxrd

Hey Guys. Got a response today to my letter

Basically they wouldn't rescind one of them as 'I am satisfied the alleged offence was committed'. However they took away one of them as

'It is current policy that where multiple detections occur on the freeway system within a 24 hr period, only one infringementwill be proceeded with...'

So I got 1 taken off. You'd think the retards would realise this before issuing the tickets but there you go

Re. Hertz they are the pits! For 2 fines they have now added 3 admin charges of $33 each. 3!! I have written to them. All this is hard work but it'll be worth it when I save some money from these money grabbing leeches

Over and out!!

INDOAUS

Best of luck with the appeal.
However I am just wondering, could unpaid speeding fine be recorded in your police record and have a negative effect in your visa application?

itxrd

Have appealed already and got the one taken off. The tight gits wouldn't take the other one off though. Or maybe its me thats the tight one ;-)

Re visa I already have one. I don't want any hassle when I do go to Oz though so I'll pay it pronto

Pollyana

Word of warning - there is no allowance for error here and you can get done for speeding if they record you as being 1km over the limit.