Checking points for speeding
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Checking points for speeding
Does anyone know how you can check on the internet how many points you have on your driving license for speeding etc?
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Kate, that tells you how/when/why you lose points - but not your individual "bilan" on your personal licence!Kate wrote:Voilà
http://www.anglophone-direct.com/Driving-in-France
For example, after a certain period, 2 years unless I am mistaken, your points are reinstated in default of any
other "delit" committed during that period.
By the way, note this: usage d'un appareil testant la présence d'un radar.
If caught, you lose 2 points! Not advertised by those selling such installations!!
Source: last paragraph of Perte de 2 points :
http://www.securoute.net/r.php?n=41
To save confusion, it appears to me (I don't know, but infer from various posts) that in the UK you accumulate "bad points" on your UK licence, whereas in France, the licence starts off with a credit of 12 "good points" (6 for 2 or 3 years if you are a brand new new driver) of which which certain numbers may be deducted from your licence depending on the gravity of your "delit" until, at 0, (for "small deductions like "not too serious "speeding, etc.) your licence is revoked for a period - the length of which is determined by various factors, explained on the site you quote.
What we would all like to know, and is supposed to have been put in place, is our own personal licence "account balance" - presumably obtainable by giving the licence number (and perhaps a PIN or something?) and for which we can't find the site - presumably something with "govt" in it?
I've searched all over and can't find any existing method except to contact "your" préfecture. Now, all préfectures have websites, therefore if the local préfecture can access your individual permit points balance (presumably via your carte grise reference?), then why is this not accessible to the public via the website. It's a simple measure to set up a "membership" with password (to avoid "non authorised" others looking) and then just type in additionally (if necessary) the number of your licence. Or, would that mean some poor soul who does it today manually would lose their job??
I mean, you can do it for your tax returns, which are much more "sensitive" than a simple check on licence points!!
Long live the land of Napoleonic logic!!
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Karen, you get a doc on line from the Prefet.
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/part ... 0046.xhtml
once you have completed the request you can check on the net.
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/part ... 0046.xhtml
once you have completed the request you can check on the net.
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Erm,...am I being very thick/simplistic here,but isn't the easiest way just to look at your licence?!
In the UK at least ,you have to send it in to have the points added for each misdemeanour. On the basis they become nul and void after 4yrs,surely,by a simple calculation you can work out your current "balance"?
Or is that not how it works in Ireland/France?
In the UK at least ,you have to send it in to have the points added for each misdemeanour. On the basis they become nul and void after 4yrs,surely,by a simple calculation you can work out your current "balance"?
Or is that not how it works in Ireland/France?
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Nope,Kathy..it's 4 yrs in all cases except death by dangerous driving/drink and drugs,which are 11 yrs.Kathy wrote:Not wishing to be pedantic but as far as I am aware points last for 3 years in the UK.In the UK at least ,you have to send it in to have the points added for each misdemeanour. On the basis they become nul and void after 4yrs,surely,by a simple calculation you can work out your current "balance"?
(ref; DVLA's own leaflet.)
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I would have thought in those cases it was for eternityjohn wrote: Nope,Kathy..it's 4 yrs in all cases except death by dangerous driving/drink and drugs,which are 11 yrs.
unless you need one "on the other side" for driving a
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Interesting...how,in practice then,do interested parties(eg car hire companies,potential employers etc etc) verify the cleanliness (or otherwise!) of your licence?mpprh wrote:Nope, your license does not show your points "score". I am talking from real life experience here !john wrote:Erm,...am I being very thick/simplistic here,but isn't the easiest way just to look at your licence?!
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I've never been asked about points by car rental companies.
They do photocopy the "permis", though.
The procedure is :
1)commit infraction grave
2)pay fine
3)receive letter confirming points loss
The letter re the points arrived 8 months after I had paid the fine - I thought they may have forgotten !
Peter
They do photocopy the "permis", though.
The procedure is :
1)commit infraction grave
2)pay fine
3)receive letter confirming points loss
The letter re the points arrived 8 months after I had paid the fine - I thought they may have forgotten !
Peter
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They won't ask you per se.mpprh wrote:I've never been asked about points by car rental companies.
They do photocopy the "permis", though.
Peter
But,thats why when you rent a car in the UK (with a UK licence),and several other places these days, you have to provide BOTH parts (the pink card AND the green paper bit where all the penalty points are detailed).
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French licenses are on one card.john wrote:thats why when you rent a car in the UK (with a UK licence),and several other places these days, you have to provide BOTH parts (the pink card AND the green paper bit where all the penalty points are detailed).
I don't really know about UK licenses because I last used one in 1990 !
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mpprh wrote:I've never been asked about points by car rental companies.
They do photocopy the "permis", though.
The procedure is :
1)commit infraction grave
2)pay fine
3)receive letter confirming points loss
The letter re the points arrived 8 months after I had paid the fine - I thought they may have forgotten !
Peter
GUILT .............
I've been doing a lot of autoroute driving recently, including UK and back.
Yesterday, I received one of these tear off the sides to open and read the letter things. Rather similar to those you get after being flashed by a speed camera, in fact !
At the top was the logo of the French state and the introduction listed various French laws.
I was nervous, and my wife seemed to be ready to launch into a " have you been speeding again - I've warned you before ....... " type of pep talk.
Reading further, I discovered that my single point (deducted for an adjusted 113 km/h in a 110km/h limit) had been restored as three years had passed.
Of course, I wasn't really worried !
Peter
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Well, we drove 2cvs for years and Mr. PR still managed one speeding fine. Quite an achievement.
Slightly off topic - that rogue parking fine.
Found the office hidden behind the police place near the gare in Perps.
Took them the notice and our original parking ticket.
Expected to be treated like a criminal but the girl couldn't have been more pleasant.
She stapled my purchased ticket to the notice, gave me a piece of paper and a letter to copy stating that I had a valid ticket and then said that that was the end of the matter. Nothing to pay.
We now realise the probable reason for the fine - Mr. PR stuck our ticket on a side window instead of the windscreen.
Slightly off topic - that rogue parking fine.
Found the office hidden behind the police place near the gare in Perps.
Took them the notice and our original parking ticket.
Expected to be treated like a criminal but the girl couldn't have been more pleasant.
She stapled my purchased ticket to the notice, gave me a piece of paper and a letter to copy stating that I had a valid ticket and then said that that was the end of the matter. Nothing to pay.
We now realise the probable reason for the fine - Mr. PR stuck our ticket on a side window instead of the windscreen.
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yeah, i wasn't going to say anything about that at the police station unless i absolutely had to.mpprh wrote:Shhh ......... That may be a capital offence ?polremy wrote:We now realise the probable reason for the fine - Mr. PR stuck our ticket on a side window instead of the windscreen.
Peter
we read the small print on the ticket and it said it had to be the pare-brise.
think we got away with it!!!
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