Speeding fine in Holland 3 years ago. Only just found out

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Evening!
So this morning I was given all my post from my old house which we left in 2017. I still own my house, but we have a tenant in it now. We moved house literally a week after coming home from a holiday in Holland..

Within the post was a speeding ticket I got from that holiday in Holland in 2017. FWIW I am a really slow driver but clearly had missed the sign as I was going a bit above the speed limit.
If I'd seen I'd got a ticket, I would have paid it immediately.

Anyway, I didn't know I got it and they've been sending tickets to my old address that have increased by double every month for non-payment!!!

I now owe thousands of Euros!!!!!

From reading online, if I never go back to Holland there won't be an issue. But if I do go back (which we were planning to do as we loved it!), then we will have to pay this money

My question is, if I explain to them that I had moved and they have sent it to my old address (and have kept sending the updates), will they accept this and just let me pay the original fine? Or if I do this, will it open a can of worms?

It's so ridiculous as it was about 40 euros originally.. I was obviously over the speed limit so I would have paid it immediately

when did you inform DVLA of your new address and get the car's v60 logbook updated? if it was within a week or so of moving, and the issue is that the Dutch police never checked that the address was unchanged each time the fine doubled, then a polite appeal to common sense may be helpful.

if your car is still registered to that address or was only changed recently then this is your own fault for not updating and I wouldn't expect any mercy. you can be fined thousands for failing to update your car log book.

I updated it as soon as we moved, it was all such unfortunate timing!

great then you have totally reasonable grounds to appeal all the monthly increases and have the fine reduced back to the original amount. if you had incurred this fine in the uk the original notice would have gone to the old address but the further notices each time the fine was increased would have come to the correct address and it never would have happened. the massive increases have occurred solely because of their basic and obviously incorrect assumption that no one would have moved house since an offence a number of months or years ago.

the British Embassy may be able to assist, or at least give you some advice.