On 10 Feb 2004 at 11:11, Frits W�thrich wrote: > That wouldn't work in the Netherlands, as the owner of the car is > responsible anyway in case no specific driver can be blamed.
The offence here is recorded against the driver and the driver loses "point" from their licence. By default the fine is attributed to the registered owner of the vehicle and to transfer the fine to an alternate driver requires the submission of a statutory declaration. I know I recently got booked for doing 4km/h over the limit on a 100km/h highway in the middle of the bush. The infringement cost 1 point from my license (more than 12 over a 3 year period leads to a period of disqualification) and AU$125 received via post two weeks after the event. The transgression occurred in another state (1000km away) so if I wanted to dispute it I would have had to travel to their local court and to view the pic of the supposed infringement would have cost AU$8.50 only payable by cheque. So I never did get to see if the flash stopped the action, nor do I remember seeing a flash, grrrr :-( > They also want to introduce a traffic control over a certain distance, > so you are photographed at the beginning end the end of a specific > distance of the motorway, so you get a fine if your average speed is > over the limit. This seems to work a lot better to slow down the > traffic. The distance is several miles. This we don't do but it makes more sense to me, state revenue would be down though so we'll not see it here too soon :-( Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
