Thread: News Stories
View Single Post
Old 2010-08-10, 06:08   Link #8546
JMvS
Rawrrr!
 
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: CH aka Chocaholic Heaven
Age: 40
Swiss police halt Swedish driver's 290 kmh dash

At 170 kph over the 120 kph limit, he may face a penalty up to 1'000'000 CHF (USD is currently close to parity with the Swiss Franc, 1 USD = 1.05 CHF).

Speeding at more than 25 kph over the 120 kph limit is regarded as a criminal offense, and penalties is also determined by the offenders income.

It may remind the precedent were a Ferrari driver was fined 300'000 CHF for speeding in a town.

Note that while the limit for penalties is at about 1 Mio CHF in Switzerland, in Germany it is near 10 Mio Euro...
__________________
JMvS is offline