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Italian traffic fines

7.3K views 8 replies 8 participants last post by  Troz  
#1 ·
Hi, I have an outstanding Notice of a traffic violation in Florence (restricted zone Siena). Does anyone know if the municipalities pursue these through Collection Agencies in the UK and have they the means?
 
#5 ·
Hi,
There is very little the Italian authorities can do to chase their traffic fines in the UK.
They may send you the fine notices through the post and you might ignore them.
If they decide to pursue you through a UK debt collectors (who have very little legal powers and are not bailiffs) then they would be unlikely to receive any monies collected.
If they pursued you through the UK courts - then again, they won’t get the money received.
Up until you point that you get a court summons - you can ignore any threatograms that you receive.
The biggest potential problem is if you go back to Italy with outstanding fines in the system.
Cheers
Steve
 
#9 ·
That might have been the case with you, but wasn't the case when I got a fine about 15 years ago, or when my brother-in-law got one a couple of years ago. In both those cases the rental company charged us an "administration fee" for having dealt with the matter, and it was that which appeared on the credit card statement.

But it was up to us to work out how to pay the original fine directly to the issuing comune.