Most expensive speeding fines

[Tee from China]

Seems everything is expensive in Finland (plus Switzerland apparently)and not just the CoL:( just found this info:rolleyes:

 

The Finnish government started basing its speeding fines on net income about a decade ago. Police can access a person's income tax records via their mobile phones, and issue the corresponding traffic fine on the spot. Keijo Kopra, a wood products company executive, received one of the first tickets under the new law.

In November 1999, on his way home from work in his BMW, Kopra was caught driving only 14mph over the speed limit. Dialling up his income information, the officer gave him a ticket for £9,000. In court, the judge lowered it to £5,500.Then the arrestinofficer mentioned that Kopra had two previous speeding tickets in the same year before the new system went into effect. Based on the new income-based laws, the judge imposed additional fines of £23,000

 

Kopra's much-publicised speeding ticket apparently didn't stop one of his well-to-do countryman from speeding. In 2000, Jaakko Rytsola, a 27-year-old Finnish internet entrepreneur and newspaper columnist, was caught in his Lamborghini Diablo going 44mph in a 25mph zone."The road was wide and I was feeling good," he later wrote.After police reviewed Rytsola's 1999 income records, they issued him a speeding ticket for £44,000

Finland's notorious speeding fines aren't just limited to those on four wheels.

 

Anssi Vanjoki, a senior Nokia executive, was busted in 2000 on his Harley-Davidson motorbike doing 47mph in a 31mph zone and, on assessment, given a £63,000 speeding ticket, ironically, by officers using a Nokia phone to obtain his income information.

But the story didn't stop there. Vanjoki challenged the fine: apparently, Vanjoki sold a large amount of his Nokia options in 1999, inflating his income. But after the dotcom technology bubble burst, his Nokia stock options weren't valuable enough to sell, and his income in 2000 was substantially less than the year before.

Three years after Vanjoki's record for the world's most expensive speeding ticket, fellow countryman Jussi Salonoja matched his record.

With tax office data showing Salonoja earned around £5 million in 2002, he was slapped with a £64,000 fine for driving at 50mph in a 25mph zone in a BMW.

 

If you're going to set the record for the world's most expensive speeding ticket, you may as well do it in style. That seems to be the reasoning behind a Swiss driver who was caught driving his Ferrari Testarossa in a small village at 62mph in January 2010.

A court in the north-eastern Swiss canton of St. Gallen requested the man dip into his £14 million + fortune to the tune of £179,000.

 

The fine beat a previous Swiss speeding ticket record of more than £62,000, issued to a Porsche driver in Zurich in 2008, after a string of previous traffic offences.

[tbourner]

I want to know how much dole seekers and other 'between-job'ers have to pay?

[marc_p]

Going by these 2:

 

With tax office data showing Salonoja earned around £5 million in 2002, he was slapped with a £64,000 fine for driving at 50mph in a 25mph zone in a BMW.

 

A court in the north-eastern Swiss canton of St. Gallen requested the man dip into his £14 million + fortune to the tune of £179,000.

 

Divide your years salary by 78, then you have the fine;)

[tbourner]

Mine would be about £250 then. That'd be a bummer.