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Hello All,

I am hoping for guidance towards the legitimacy of getting a ticket after a year of perhaps having committed a driving offence in Italy.

Last year on Aug 27th (27/08/2012) I had flown to Pisa and had rented a vehicle for 4 days.
All I can recollect about the car I rented was that it was a White small sized car.

I returned the car on the 30th at Venice Airport, from where I flew back home.

However few days back i.e. (14/09/2013) after more than 1 year, I have received a letter in the post from the Municipality of Pisa, stating that I had entered into a restricted traffic zone without authorisation. I am not able to agree or dispute on having committed this offence as I cannot really remember if I had been in the side street that is mentioned in the letter (Via Camozzo).

I also found it strange that the Italian authorities have dated this notice to me to have been written out on August 2, 2013 although the cover in which it came clearly has a posted stamp of Sept 7, 2013.

In the letter, they have also provided link to a site which is supposed to be photographic evidence; however this actually only shows the photo of a car and not the driver. Hence I cannot really tell if this is the same car as what I had rented and if I was actually the driver.

I have uploaded the notice, the envelope and snapshot of the evidence to the below link, with the hope to get advice on what should I be doing next.

http://s277.photobucket.com/user/kuki28_ph.../Painful%20Pisa


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