I got caught speeding in France near Nantes on sunday morning. Was tanking it along as I was late for the ferry and still a good 8 hours away from Calais. I set off 3 speed cameras that morning, in france you can pretty much ignore them if you have english plates as they never pursue them. I was doing 140kph which is 80mph on a dual carriage way , its not fast but you stick out like a sore thumb as the french drive really slowly.
Suddenly this blue VW Van joins the slip way in my rear view mirror with lights flashing, it takes it ages to catch up to me depsite me slowing to legal speed. a few minutes later i expect it to shoot past me but it gets level and points me in.
Had to stop at the next hard shoulder. They couldnt speak english. They did a lot of pointing at the 138kph on the speed gun then smiling at me. I thought at first they were letting me off but when i went to get back in the car they grabbed my elbow and escorted me to their van. GF didnt know what was happening, thought i was going to jail. They wrote 90euros on a piece of paper, so got the wallet out, S*** , ive only got 84.55 on me. They closed the van door and started driving, thought we were going to the police station but they stopped at a cash point. Got the cash paid them, then they drove me back to my car.
Even though i got caught its only a small price to pay for the excellent roads France has.
