I got my 3rd (ever) German speeding ticket yesterday. Blitz-camera situation.
With 30-odd years in and around Germany.....I feel kinda lucky....just 3 tickets. All three are 6 to 10 km's over the speed limit....so they generally run 30 Euro.
They come in a nicely worded letter (with my picture)....saying they applied 'tolerance-levels'. This usually means that they are giving you five km of speed and maybe even eight km....on top of the normal limit.
So to be honest....in this zone I was traveling....I was pretty confident I was going near 52 kph (in a 30-zone). That would have meant a 90 Euro fine. But with their tolerance-talk....it ends up being a 30 Euro fine.
The sad part of this story? Well....I end up getting sixteen lectures by my German wife about what we could have spent the 30 Euro upon.
My chief grumble? It used to be purely 2 regular speed limits and a rare 3rd limit that you'd run into. Around urban areas.....there were the 50 and 100 kph limit signs. In the past three years....you now see a lot of 30 kph limit signs. You might drive through x-number of regular streets for a decade, and then one day....like 2 weeks ago....they flipped a street area from 50 km to 30 km and there's a blitz-camera installed.
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