Speeding Ticket - Time Limit for Issuance

Transportation, Travel and Trips
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My wife got a speeding ticket in the post yesterday. It's nothing major but the date of the offence is August, so I wondered, if there was any sort of limit within which tickets have to be issued? In the UK, tickets have to be sent to the registered owner of the vehicle within 14 days. As this is over 2 months, I'm hopeful that something similar exists in Switzerland. We're in the canton of Geneva, if that matters at all.

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Quite normal, I suspect the limit is 5 years, like for other bills.

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It is 3+3 years for contraventions. 3 years to sentence you and than another 3 years to enforce the sentence.

Art.109 Swiss Criminal Code

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Thanks very much. I appreciate you taking the time. It was worth a go.

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rather than open a new thread, quick question here:

About two weeks ago, I got flashed in Zurich/Enge area going prob. 63-65 on a 50 zone.

I have not received the ticket yet in the mail (License plate from Zug).

Questions:

- How long usually these take?

- Is there a way to check just with my license plate, or, I need a "ticket" number too? (their Online-Shop Dienstabteilung Verkehr)

Thanks in advance....

(I was under the impression that I would have received already the ticket in the two weeks... so... either it wont come... or its a "bigger offense" (which I don't think its the case...))

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Couple of weeks and 65 in a 50 zone is not peanuts.

Less than 15 over is 250. More than 15 at least 400, according to ch.ch

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thanks.. hoping wont be 400... but regardless of what it is... the question remains: is there a way to check just with license plate? and/how how long tickets from ZRH to other kantons take?

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If 63-65 is what you saw inside the car, then you are fine it is a normal 250chf busse, it can take as long as 3 months sometimes to reach you...there is no way that i am aware of to check anything with your license plate....if 63-65 is what you only estimate and you saw more inside the car, then could go through a judge, also can take several months... https://en.comparis.ch/carfinder/autofahren/bussen

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It depends. Typically a few weeks, but I've had tickets take a few months.

Worst was Italy, which arrived nearly a decade later. Couldn't even remember if I was in Rome at the time!

And no- you cannot check with only a license plate. Plates are public knowledge, you wouldn't your neighbors checking if you had been speeding...

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Between 1 and 2 months.

Tangential facts:

1) no speed cameras in the land of the free, Aargau Police prefers to be by the roadside and make surprise speed measurements. They say it's more effective to do it this way because they find out that people speeding have additional issues: alcohol, pending fines, suspended licenses, etc.

2) Luzern publishes the location of the speed cameras every week. Anyway, most of them are fixed. Only a few are moved every week https://polizei.lu.ch/organisation/s...Tempomessungen

Any other canton that publishes the location of them?

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SG publish where the semi-mobile ones are:

https://www.sg.ch/sicherheit/kantons...ehr/radar.html

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Would love to see a source for that... Happy to upload pics of several speed cameras around my house (near Lenzburg). A quick check on Waze for "hidden police" will show you quite a few of them...

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Well, the cantonal police does not install them. Municipalities (gemeinde) are free to install them on.

https://www.argoviatoday.ch/aargau-s...sset:152013729

I should have been more specific about the land of free "motorways". Anyway, what's the point on going above the speed limit in zones full of pedestrians and cyclists?

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indeed its my estimate without deducting some kms for the camera allowance and the odometer allowance... hope to stay "out of the courts"... just wish the damn ticket came quick... lets see.. thanks all for all the other responses too.

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Quick update with a "happy ending"... turns out the ticket did arrive,... TODAY!... amazing, since it happened on 16.09.23. I am surprise it took this long.

...and... was only for 40.00!!! phewwwwwwww. This means I was not as fast as I thought I was when I got flashed... (or my odometer is really insane....)

it had me at 57 on a 50 zone. allowed me 3 deduction, so only 4 for the charge, which is the 40!

I am sooo lucky!

Thanks all,

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Take into account that speedometers always overdisplay your real speed by up to 10%. They legally can't underestimate your speed. So if you see 60 on your speedo, you're more likely doing somewhere nearer 55. Then take off the 3 km/h tolerance and you end up with the number on your ticket.