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Avis said I we got traffic ticket in France, it never came in the mail

Posted by (colorado springs) on

Hi-

We were in France last August. Several months after we got home we received a notification from Avis that we got a traffic ticket and that France would send it to us in the mail...it never arrived and they didn't specifically say what the ticket was for. A few days ago we bought plane tickets to Paris, we'll be taking our 13 year-old son with us this time. I've been spending all day trying to find out what the ticket is. I can't find anything but that portal to pay the ticket which asks for a number I don't have because we never actually got a ticket:
https://www.amendes.gouv.fr/

Does anyone know of a way to find out if you have a ticket and how much? As time goes by I worry how expensive this ticket is. I don't want any snafus when we enter France with our son in tow. We won't be staying in France, heading straight to Naples and then Sorrento but we will be there for 5 days when we return from Italy. We aren't planning on renting a car in France this time. If we don't figure out the ticket thing, what will happen when we enter the country of France? The lady at Avis told me today that it takes a year just to get the ticket from France, that seems weird to me, is that normal?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry if I've posted this to the wrong place, or it's a question that's been beat to death in another message thread already. I'm new here. :-)

Posted by
11159 posts

That is a normal amount of time in Italy and Spain. Your first notice is from the rental car company plus a fee feom them.. We had to do a lot of investigating to find out how to pay the fine when ticket finally arrived. Paid the one in Italy but never was able to pay it in Spain. We returned to Spain last year, no problems.

Posted by
7034 posts

Until you actually get a ticket there's not much you can do. I'm not sure you need to be overly concerned about it. Traffic tickets are not normally something that would prevent you from entering a country unless it was a DUI, which would not be a ticket that you receive in the mail. It is normal for it to take up to a year and even longer for those tickets to actually get to you. I wouldn't worry about it.

Posted by
4519 posts

You can blow it off. Also, I think the Avis lady is wrong about France and 1 year.

For us and others posting here, sometimes the French tickets just get canceled when it turns out it's a tourist but they don't tell you that.

We got a ticket 3 years ago, and the ticket never came, just the letter from Budget and the rather unreasonable admin fee.

Recently we revisited France and rented again from Budget without issue.

Posted by
3 posts

Thanks you guys. I am just going to keep moving along and either hope the ticket doesn't come or does before we leave. lol

Posted by
12172 posts

Did Avis charge you anything? Sometimes they have a service charge for sharing information with the police and telling you about it.

Posted by
3 posts

Hi Brad,

I found the notification from Avis yesterday and it said they'd be charging a fee of 35 euros to our card but my husband said he never noticed the charge. I'm sure they did since they said they were going to.

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