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PCN from Italy - Entered a limited traffic zone.
By: darknight Date: January 14, 2026, 6:22 am
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Hi
I’ve received this PCN from Italy when I rented out a vehicle
about a year ago. I have no recollection of the incident and not
sure if this is legitimate or not. If someone could advise me
what to do, should I pay out the fine? Thanks
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Re: PCN from Italy - Entered a limited traffic zone.
By: stamfordman Date: January 14, 2026, 6:53 am
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They can't enforce it.
Have you had an admin fee from the rental company?
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Re: PCN from Italy - Entered a limited traffic zone.
By: Daim456 Date: January 15, 2026, 5:49 pm
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I would not worry too much.
Even Councils in England cannot enforce PCN for vehicle
registered in Scotland.
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Re: PCN from Italy - Entered a limited traffic zone.
By: fraser.mitchell Date: January 15, 2026, 6:42 pm
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I'm not familiar with Italian law, but it's maybe possible the
hire company will pay the fine and off-charge you. Italy parking
and traffic offences are all still under criminal law, I think.
In the UK, the Penalty Charge Notice regime makes the owner of
the vehicle responsible, so with hire and lease companies, a lot
of them just pay the the PCN and off-charge the hirer/lessee,
plus an 'admin' charge, needless to say !
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Re: PCN from Italy - Entered a limited traffic zone.
By: stemi Date: January 16, 2026, 4:38 am
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Hello from Italy :-)
I'm sorry that you received this bad gift after your trip.
Shortly answer I suggest you to ignore this, as can't be
enforced in UK, and will not be enforced. They will only try to
stress you/scare you with reminders / credit collectors letters
for a while (credit collectors not bailiffs).
Italian Traffic Fines (both parking and moving ones) are only
civil matters and you will have no consequences even in the case
you will come back to Italy (there are only few exceptions to
this for very serious matters like driving under alcohol/drugs
or running away from a car accident or other few very serious
matters: these are criminal offences and are registered in your
records).
Rental company never directly pay traffic tickets in Italy: they
simply have to send to the police/municipality the renter's name
and address and then is up to the police / council to chase you.
For doing this rental companies always charge you an admin fee
(and surely they have already charged your credit card, normally
something around 50 Euros, sometimes more. It's written in the
rental agreement).
Why I'm telling you this? Not because I'm an Italian that likes
foreigners coming to Italy doing what they want, but because you
probably made an honest error, entering in a city center zone
closed to traffic and got caught by a camera, maybe bad
signposted like often happens. This zones are very common in
Italy but unusual for many foreigners.
And for this honest error they are trying to charge you in an
indecent way. For that violation the fine is 58 Euros if paid in
5 days from when you receive it or 83 Euro if paid from 5 to 60
days from when you receive.
Italian law says that they can add on the top of the fine the
expenses that they have to notify you the report. But guys, here
they are trying to charge you around 60 Euros!!! For what? For
sending you a letter at the address received from the rental
company? The fact is that there are a lot of municipality that
are "outsourcing" fine management to be sent abroad to external
companies, like the one that wrote to you, that work for free
(for the municipality) but they are "allowed" to charge whatever
they want on the top. There have been different scandals about
this kind of companies in Italy and I simply find that this is a
shame.
Plus I'm not a native English speaker but I have never seen a
translation bad as that. There are also a lot of technical
errors like, for example, its the owner or the renter that is
responsible for payment not the driver, they are not detailing
the amount of the fine and the amount of the expenses as the law
requires (guess why...), they declare that they have sent the
letter from a Vatican Post Office (not joking read among the
lines, never seen this but Vatican is not Italy and they have to
send the letter from Italy according to the law. Never seen
this, maybe Vatican Post Service is less expensive than the
Italian one). Never seen a **** like that. Do you what to gain
60 Euros of expenses? At least do a decent job...
As said I'm a very law obeying citizen, in Italy and abroad but
I don't like to see a tourist "scammed" in this way for a simply
honest mistake.
Hope you liked my country as I liked your during my different
trips :-)
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