Caught speeding in New Zealand!

Nobjocki

mystic_trev wrote: »

No, not if you've been stopped and issued a ticket.

Correctamundo.
Once the ticket is issued to you personally it cannot be assumed to be the responsiblity of the hire care company.
And do not think for one minute that an unpaid speeding fine is going to stop you gaining entry again into New Zealnd.
It's like all those threads from people worried about getting into the States because they got a conditional discharge for a bit of shoplifting 10 years ago.
That information is not going to end up on the screen in front of the immigration officers at Orlando when you're trying to get in with the family.
Big Brother is sometimes too busy to be watching you.

[Deleted User]

You broke the law so whether you agree or disagree with the speed limits you should just comply and pay up.

You knew the speed limit yet you chose to break it.

Lemonhugger

Hi

Thanks for all your comments. It is a really interesting (within context of course!) moral dilemma! Probably up there with the Gatso debate in this country.

I believe the motorist is a soft target, particularly at the moment in this country (UK). Of course there has to be a deterrent to wanton speeding in any high car user country, but if I was Argentinian or Indian for example, I don't believe that the New Zealand authorities would waste too much time in pursuing the payment of a fine once the offending driver had left the country, because the driver could easily evade 'capture'. Subsoniccoyote, I take your point and share a similar viewpoint to you, but I have to say I am a tad miffed at being caught speeding in the way I was, because it felt like an opportunity for the cop to legally mug me!

Whatever happened to the days of being stopped and warned that you were travelling too fast, instead of a robot issuing a ticket.

I know the roads are dangerous over in New Zealand, but I can't help thinking that it's just a money making scam!

Anyway, many thanks for all your comments once again, Watwoman, I believe Santa Monica is a bit like being on a boring course in Blackpool for driving!! Ivanopinion, couldn't agree with you more!

I will of course let you know what I do. I.e. pay or stay away!

Ta

photome

If anyone is still reading..I got a ticket in the States a month ago $300 fine for speeding..on the citation it says, if the fine isnt paid my may 2nd an arrest warrant will be issued. I cant pay yet as the courthouse havent received the citation from the highway patrol so the date has been extended (at least that is what I have been told on the phone).

My point is I do want to go back so I was going to pay because of that, if I had no intention of returning I wouldnt pay

Nobjocki

You will not be refused entry to the US because of an unpaid speeding ticket.
Well,I never have and I must have been given half a dozen of them in my last three or four trips.
The Department of Homeland Security has more on its plate than sifting through millions of parking tickets.

photome

Nobjocki wrote: »

You will not be refused entry to the US because of an unpaid speeding ticket.
Well,I never have and I must have been given half a dozen of them in my last three or four trips.
The Department of Homeland Security has more on its plate than sifting through millions of parking tickets.

What happens to the arrest warrant?

I have paid now anyway and the lady in the court said that $300 was to much and reduced it to $130, so I said thank you very much and paid.

Still like an answer tho

rw8

I had a long drawn out exchange with the NZ authorities after getting a ticket. Eventually got it thrown out after asking for confirmation that they would pay costs if I was found not guilty in court - I suggested I may like to defend myself, and before I confirmed it needed confirmation in writing my costs would be covered if found innocent.

The clerk to the justice found it rather amusing that I was bothered enough to come back to NZ for a court hearing - little did she know it was a ruse!