The Highway Code provides for an increase in the amount for road fines due to infringements committed at night. Here are costs and timetables
If elevated at night, fines due to infringements of the highway code are more expensive. This is because, as indicated in article 195, a increase of the amount in the event that the infringement is committed between 22:00 and 7:00. Specifically, the cost of the fine comes increased by a third. Do not respect a red traffic light at night, for example, therefore involves a pecuniary sanction of 222 eurosagainst the 167 euros normally due. The points reduced by the license instead remain the same: 6 points that become 12 for a novice driver.
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If being “pinched” by a speed camera at a speed no more than 10 km/h above the limit involves a fine from 42 to 173 euros, then committing the same infringement at night leads to receiving a penalty included Between 56 euros and 230 euros. By breaking the limit of no more than 40 km/h, at night it will take place in a fine from 230 to 925 euroswhile violating it of no more than 60 km/h involves a penalty From 724 euros to 2,893 eurosin addition to the suspension of the license for up to three months. Finally, being surprised at a speed of over 60 km/h compared to the limit bears the amount of the sanction from 1,126 euros to 4,510 eurosin addition to the suspension of the license up to 12 months. The reason behind the increase in penalties at night is soon said. The initiative, in fact, was born for finance the fund against night accidentsestablished in 2007 to manage the purchase of materials, equipment and vehicles for the night monitoring of the road network, awareness, clinical analysis, research and experimentation initiatives in the sector of contrasting driving in a state of intoxication or after taking drugs.