This issue may have been addressed previously but I was unable to locate anything. We recently traveled in Italy on the Autostrade and received a ticket for failure to pay a 60 cent toll. In a nutshell...we approached an unmanned toll gate to ask directions (we got lost) and being our first time driving in Italy, did not know that we must activate the ticket machine. There was no one to ask and no bar blocking the exit so we drove through to the next toll section a short distance away. We tried to explain to the guard at that station who spoke very little English what had happened...we payed the 60 cent toll. He gave us an unpaid toll ticket and managed to tell us to go pay the toll at the closest PuntaBlu station (which we never found). The ticket indicated we could pay at a toll gate but we were refused when we tried to do that. The amt. on the ticket is 48.40 euros...hard to believe for a 60 cent unpaid toll...especially when we tried to pay it and were refused.
We had a rental car and that info. is listed on the ticket. Can anyone advise whether it is in our best interest to pay this outrageous fine online within the 15-day time period to avoid additional "legal" fees or might we have success in pleading our case via the Autostrade site? My companion thinks we should not pay the fine but my name is the one on the rental car information.