Speeding fines in Italy

Art. 142 sets 4 bands, and they do not change with the type of road. A motorway, a main road and a street in a town all read from the same ladder; what changes between them is the limit itself, not the penalty band.

The first band, up to 10 km/h over the limit, carries a payable figure of € 42 and no points at all. The second, more than 10 and not more than 40 km/h over the limit, is where the licence starts to be touched: € 173 to pay and 3 points. The third, more than 40 and not more than 60 km/h over the limit, is € 543, 6 points, and an accessory suspension whose statutory floor is 1 month. The top band, more than 60 km/h over the limit, is € 845, 10 points and a suspension starting at 6 months.

Points begin at more than 10 km/h over the limit; a suspension begins at more than 40 km/h over the limit. Those are two different thresholds and readers routinely merge them. Below the first one the money is real and the licence is untouched; between them the licence loses points but keeps working; above the second one an accessory sanction attaches and the whole payment picture changes with it.

Every one of those amounts is a corridor in the statute — a minimum and a maximum — and the figure you are asked for is the minimum. Art. 202 co. 1 calls it «una somma pari al minimo fissato dalle singole norme»: a sum equal to the minimum the individual provision sets. It is not a reduction from the maximum and it is not a concession; it is the floor of the range the charged article already contains.

The window for it is 60 days from the date the notice was served on you or handed to you at the roadside. Inside the first 5 days a further 30% comes off — but only where the offence carries neither confiscation of the vehicle under art. 210 co. 3 nor suspension of the licence. Because so much of the catalogue carries a suspension, that further reduction is the exception rather than the rule, and on the two heaviest speeding bands it is simply not available.

If you pay by bank transfer rather than in cash or by postal giro, what counts is the date the administration's account is credited, not the date you pressed send. The rule allows 2 days for that credit to land past the deadline. From abroad, with an intermediary bank in the chain, that is the difference between a payment that is timely and one that is not.

A repeat inside a built-up area has its own rule. Where the second band is breached at least twice within 12 months in a built-up area, art. 142 co. 8 substitutes its own corridor, from € 220 to € 880 — € 220 payable — and adds a suspension measured in days rather than months, 15 to 30 days. It is the only suspension figure in the Italian speeding rules stated in days.

Vehicle class doubles it. Art. 142 co. 11 doubles both the pecuniary sanction and the accessory sanction for the 7 vehicle classes art. 142 co. 3 lists — heavy goods vehicles, buses over a stated weight, vehicle-and-trailer combinations, dangerous-goods loads and work vehicles at full load. It never doubles the points: those come from a separate table that co. 11 does not touch.

Night moves it too, but only for named articles. Art. 195 co. 2-bis increases the pecuniary sanction by a third for violations committed between 22:00 and 7:00 — and it applies to a closed list: artt. 141, 142, 145, 146, 149, 154, 174, 176 (commi 19 and 20) and 178. Speeding is on that list. Nothing else is on it by analogy.

What does not move it: the road. There is no separate motorway table in Italian speeding law, and a page that offers you one is describing a different country's system.