Watch out if you’re driving in France

[hot66]

Watch your speed !

https://news.mc/2025/12/29/extreme-spee ... in-france/

[911hillclimber]

Good info but much the same as the UK?
30 mph over the given limit and a risk of a ban and more.

In France, motorway toll road, 80 mph in the dry + 30 = more than the UK.

Just not worth it in France where many cameras are hidden.

[Yellow491]

Eh,france is now prison for 50k over,car confiscated and huge fines.
I got pulled by austrian police at 80km over last year,thank goodness they only fined me 80€

[911hillclimber]

We were all over France last year in mid September, and the cameras were everywhere, esp the 30Km/h village centers.

Biggest danger were the locals blasting around keen to overtake the dawdling Brits in the Porsche...

I think the toll autoroute (we use a lot) are all average speed monitored so 80 mph on a dry day.

We don't mind any more, just sit back and enjoy the ride.

[hot66]

It’s one of the reason France doesn’t feature in our euro tours anymore … their financial loss , even though I love the place

[Ian Comerford]

I wouldn’t write it off too quickly James. There are so many roads they can’t cover all of them. So many great cross-country routes with hardly any coverage from what I have seen.

[911hillclimber]

Yes, that is true, but as we use the toll roads to cut the distanced as we move around we do not see too many open stretches.
There is a big absence of Gendarme (sp), none of the small gaggles of them on road junctions and such like, cost cutting, but I feel replaced by the grey hidden cameras.

I love driving in France as a country with lots to give on a tour but the vintage blatts to Le Mans are quickly becoming folk law.