it seems that during my trip to new zealand over xmas and the new year i must have broke the speed limit on one occasion in a camper van . im now back in the uk and have recieved a notice from the police that i owe them just over £100, for doing a little over the speed limit, has this happened to anyone else? and did you pay?

This has happened to many people, and yes, you should pay it. Part of being a good visitor is obeying the law, and gracefully accepting the penalty if you get caught breaking it.
I think you will find that if you don't pay it will be transferred to the Rental company, and they will debit your credit card, plus a handling feee.

Records of unpaid fines are lodged with immigration, and there may be an arrest warrent out for you, so you could spend your next visit as a guest of the NZ government.

Yes it happened to me, and yes I paid.
I was so careful while I was there and paid attention to all the warnings not to speed. It was near the end of my trip and I wasn't feeling well...and well, I guess I was anxious to get back to our hostel! I had no idea I was 'caught' til after I got home.

Yes toondoug, hard as it may be, it is better to pay, because one day you might like to go back and unlike the UK; Australia and NZ seldom forget these things.

Muck

I've been done for speeding in UK and thought it was a fair cop and just paid it. Suggest you do the same for your NZ fine.

out of interest, was the fine from a camera, handheld speed gun or other source? And do you have any idea/warning of when these are in place?

thanks for the advice and replies all ,cant remember seeing any warnings of the camera but it must have been there. i wont be going back to n/z its to far and im getting to old ,so no chance of being arrested and the campervan co. tore up my c/c slip so thats ok .i do think the n/z police are very hard on speeding but its not illeagal to drive without insurance dosent make sense does it

I got ticketed doing MAYBE 10K per hour over the limit near Gore a couple years ago and the tab was about $75. Ouch. Speed camera I never saw. I paid because I'm going back to New Zealand. Interestly, the NZ govt's done some studying up on tourists--apparently a third of us have no idea what the open road limit is, and we're easy pickins.

http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/ove....html#table345

Just a couple of points to add

There are no longer any warning signs advising that there may be speed cameras on the side of the road.

There are two types.

Permanent pole mounted cameras. These are sandy coloured boxes along side mainly busy roads.

The mobile cameras are all over and can be found anywhere. They are now located in a fleet of Mitsubishi vans. (used to be in the back of a fleet of white Toyota Camrys)

They used to be all white but people figured this out pretty fast, so now the vans can be any colour. The distinguishing feature is the heavily tinted windows. If you see a Mitsi van, with tinted windows parked up on the side of the road in an unusual place, chances are it is a speed camera.

There is generally a leeway above the speed limit of 10 kms before the ticket is issued.

The reason the police are strict on speeding and insurance is not such a biggy here is that no one ever dies purely because the driver was not insured. Believe me a lot of people have died on NZ roads because of speeders though. We used to have the highest death toll per capita in the developed world until stricter enforcement came into being about 10 years ago.

Thanks for the info -- I do remember seeing camera warning signs in my travels around the country last time. I don't drive fast--that'd be the wife, but in the US at least, to get popped for 10K (6 mph) over the limit as I did would be considered fairly Draconian. But why race around NZ anyway, you're bound to miss something beautiful if you do.