speeding ticket
 

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help
My brother recently returned to England after visiting us for a few weeks and told me that he'd been caught speeding in NSW on his way to the airport. They gave him an instant 6 mth ban on the spot and fined him 1650 dollars!!!
His question to me was how will they enforce the payment from Australia and will this have any affect on him should he try to return in the future.
I have told him he should pay it as he shouldnt have been speeding...
Just wondered if any one else had friends/relatives with the same story

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Blimey what was he in a chuffin' F-15 :rofl:

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More then 45kmh over is 1642 in NSW ;)

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/rulesregul.../speeding.html

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Of course he should pay it, that's a ridiculous speed to be driving at!

You (or he) should probably seek legal advice about the ramifications of not paying the fine - I imagine there would be consequences if he tried to reenter.

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A friend of mine got a speeding ticket in Sydney and had to pay it when she arrived bakc in the UK - dont now about the ban though

Lindsey

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Last time i came to oz with my mate we drove from Brisbane to Sydney. After we arrived back in the uk my mate got three fines through the post. He wrote on the envelope return to sender and never heard anything since. He came back out to oz last year for a hol and thought he may get stopped at passport control but walked on through;). Mind you your bro's is a bit more than three small fines.

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Hiya, unfortunately (for me) i know the precise answers to these questions!

I am an Australian - been living in the UK for 3 years and I have been back to Australia 3 times for various reasons - on each of these three trips home I was caught speeding!! (once in QLD, twice in NSW)

I presented my UK address and the fine was sent to me here in the UK.

you MUST pay the fine - because otherwise it will go against your record and next time you want to go to Australia it will pop up! And if you never go back then they will chase you anyway! In NSW all fines go to the Infringement Processing Bureau and they basically hound people. I have a friend who works there and she tells me that they even have a specialist team to recover money from people not living in the country. The last thing you want is this popping up at on a future holiday or when he applies for visa to live there or tries to open a Aust bank account (who knows what the future holds)

If he has a UK licence then the Australian authorities have no power to cancel it or anything of that nature - they can't even take points off it! the inter-government agreement between NSW and UK authorities does not extend to cancelling or revoking licences or adding points - and the UK authorities could not take points off your licence or any other action for something that happened outside the UK.

So my advice would be (as I had to do on three occassions) pay the fine and forget about it!!

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Might be better off to pay the fine, and not forget about it, and stick to the speed limit (or within reason of it) next time... :confused:

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