Austria $500 Autobahn traffic ticket notice 6 months later

[JL]

Great thread. Good to know. I, personally, would skip the ticket and take my chances even re-entering the country. You should dispute it if they arrest or detain you......i wonder if the OP has been in prison for the past 2 yrs or so...

[erasure]

Originally Posted by DCNita

I wonder did this ever get resolved.

I kinda wonder about resolution too, reading this thread;

$25 traffic ticket becomes a $619 one after 2 months - any way to reduce it?

[NoxZ]

Austrian MAUT / Vignette is not enforced by Police, but by the ASFINAG. Those are the ones keeping the roads in shape. They have overhead Cams and vehicles checking the stickers on the car. Since they are not Police cars but ASFINAG Vans its a little tricky for foreigners to see what they are up to.

And it is not allowed to keep more than 3 or 4 stickers on the windhsield in the car (if there were some stickers from previous drivers and your additional 3 stickers) you might be in the limit and fined you for that rather than just an expired sticker. The other thing is. Cars have a shade film on top of the windshields that is very dark from the outside. so if you put the sticker on make sure that it is below that or the cams and the patroling cars cannot see them clearly and maybe taken another (already expired) sticker for reference.

So all in all it is tricky. The fines are very high, no doubt in that even for Austrians.
Still hope that you had fun in my homecountry (actually my hometown is just 20min away from Linz)

br, a

Edit: oh and Austrian Highways have an enforced speelimit of 80Miles/h but noone will probably stop you if you are close to 92Miles/h (construction zones are way stricter) .

[DCNita]

[quote=JL;i wonder if the OP has been in prison for the past 2 yrs or so...[/quote]

Good point JL!!! That gave me a bit of a chuckle.