Swedish man gets $1 Million speeding ticket!

[Darrenf]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id...tionid=3510212

Swiss police impounded the Mercedes of a Swedish man, who was driving at 290 km/h (180 mph) in Switzerland
A Swedish driver who was caught driving at 290 km/h (180 mph) in Switzerland is likely to receive a world-record speeding fine of one million dollars.

The 37-year-old man, who was driving his Mercedes SLS AMG, was clocked along the A12 highway between Lausanne and Bern in Sweden last week.

Swiss police arrested the driver and confiscated his car.

"Nothing can justify a speed of 290 km/h," BBC quoted local police spokesman Benoit Dumas as saying.

"It is not controllable. It must have taken 500 meters to stop," Dumas added.

The man defended himself on the grounds that his car's speedometer may have been faulty.

"I think the speedo on the car, which is new, is faulty," the driver told police.

The Swiss law calculates the cost of a speeding fine based on the size of the infringement as well as the income of the driver.

Prosecutors say that, under the law, the Mercedes-driving man is likely to be fined CHF 1.08 million (USD 1 million), the highest speeding fine ever.

The driver had previously escaped being clocked by numerous speed cameras on his journey simply because he was going too fast and the instruments were incapable of clocking any speed beyond 200 km/h.

The camera that caught him driving at close to 300 km/h was a new generation of radar machines that was recently installed.

The world's previous ticket record stands at USD 290,000.

[th3 factory freak]

This guy, IMO is a total moron.

You go out and buy a million dollar car with 571 bhp, invest in countermeasures.

For the sake of it, lets say the radar source was a C/O a few miles away. He might have had enough time to really hammer on the brakes and slow it down.

[Darrenf]

I wonder what percentage of these people even know that countermeasures exist.

[statusquo]

That record was smashed by the Holland computer guy's son who took his dad's Bugatti Veyron for a spin at 2x the PSL and they took his car. Cost was $2.1 million USD for doing 160 kph in a 80 kph zone (cost of car + whatever else they threw at him, although it was his son that did it.).


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[Darrenf]

That record was smashed by the Holland computer guy's son who took his dad's Bugatti Veyron for a spin at 2x the PSL and they took his car. Cost was $2.1 million USD for doing 160 kph in a 80 kph zone (cost of car + whatever else they threw at him, although it was his son that did it.).


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OUCH!!!

[th3 factory freak]

As far as I know, that costs around 1.2 M. So he had to pay twice the cost of the car to get it back.

As said before: OUCH

[statusquo]

Here's the link to the computer guy's kid causing him about $2 million (USD) in grief fora 2x speeding bust. About 5-6 paragraphs down into the article.

http://www.gizmag.com/the-worlds-mos...ng-fine/14981/

Bet pop isn't a happy camper now if he can't bail his Buggati out of jail.

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[JDS]

It is not controllable.

Benoit Dumas clearly knows ****-all about cars.

[Stealth Stalker]

I wonder what percentage of these people even know that countermeasures exist.

Clearly, he thought his speed was his countermeasure. Pwnt!

[Darrenf]

Clearly, he thought his speed was his countermeasure. Pwnt!

Yeah, he didn't really think things through that well.