Hi all! In August this year I was speeding on the Autobahn and a couple of weeks later I received a letter from the police. I have attached a photo of the letter. The letter also contained a form where you need to answer who was driving, whether I agree with the fine, etc. The letter also indicated that this procedure can be done online; the attached letter contains the login/password for the personal account for my case in the police. I went there as soon as I received the letter, entered all the data and sent it. I have read that after you have admitted that you were driving and you agree to the fine, the police must send you a letter indicating the details for paying the fine. The problem is that I never received such a letter! Moreover, somewhere at the end of September I re-entered the online form and entered all the data again, but still no effect! There is still no letter from the police with instructions on how to pay the fine. I agree with the fine and I don’t mind the 40 euros; out of desperation, a couple of days ago I transferred these 40 euros using the details indicated in the letter (below). please tell me, should another letter have arrived, or am I a complete idiot and I should have paid 40 euros right away, without waiting for the letter?

by Desperate-Opposite-1

9 comments

  1. Well, they even included the Verwendungszweck, so it’s definitely the intended way of payment 

  2. This is the letter, that tells you, that you have to pay 40€ – 😉

  3. It doesn’t say that there will be further correspondence. Quite the opposite: if you pay, the case is closed and nothing else will happen. If you pay you don’t even need to provide any additional info. The bank details are at the bottom of the letter.

  4. The letter explicitely says that when you pay 40 EURos, the case is done and closed. You don’t need to do anything else and you will not get any other mail about this case.

  5. By paying the fee everything is done. There was no need to sent them your details. They only need it if someone else was driving the car. (In this case they would sent the letter again to that person. 🙂 so no worries 😉

  6. >I haven’t received a letter with details about paying a speeding fineI haven’t received a letter with details about paying a speeding fine

    yes you have. you have uploaded it right into that post.

    The payment informations are right at the bottom of it. you pay 40,00€ to this bank account and as a payment detail you enter the Verwendungszweck.

  7. It is stated in the Letter that you just have to pay the fine and thats it. It is a little bit confusing the, that they dont statet that you should use one of the Bankdetails on the bottom of the Letter.

    You could deny to pay and get the possibility to defend yourself, if you think, that there is something wrong worh this Letter.

    Except the speeding, you did everything correct. Please dont speed in the future! 

    Have a nice day!

    P.S. I am really wondering that there are now Login-Data. Do we really are that digitalised? And how did it work with Fax?

  8. and yet it turns out I’m an idiot… thanks everyone for the answers. and if I am several months behind on my payment, what awaits me? Or do the German police give a warning before suing me?

  9. I think, It says you can reply to the letter through the online link or with the attached form. Probably to get more details on it. But I never had to do that to pay my warning fine. Just sent the money through the account details they sent me.

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