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goldgrits1 May 29th, 2019 02:00 AM

Travel vignette
 
My husband arrived at the Zurich airport and we have a German car. There is no vignette and the offices were closed. I believe we were photographed on the autobahn but I purchased a vignette this morning. Can we still be ticketed?

Alec May 29th, 2019 02:16 AM

Yes. They photograph the front of cars, where by law a vignette must be affixed on the windscreen. So if you drove vignette-less on autobahn, you committed an offence and fine may be due. It's not when you bought a vignette - it must be affixed when you are on autobahn.

BritishCaicos May 29th, 2019 02:36 AM

That’s pretty much it.

You can’t drive on Swiss or Austrian Autobahns without one.

The 24 hours petrol stations sell them, you’ll find the locations on google. There’s local anti Northern European feeling in some areas of Central Europe aimed at Northern Europeans driving through their countries on the way to Southern Europe and not contributing. As a result vignette infringement are usually enforced through the hire company.

Melnq8 May 29th, 2019 06:09 AM

You might be looking at a fine of 200 CHF

More info here:

https://en.comparis.ch/autoversicher...nvignette-2019

PalenQ May 29th, 2019 09:08 AM

Highway robbery!


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