[dalke]

My first thought was "what, again? Didn't they learn from the last one?" Then I saw that the dateline was 2002 - this was the last one.

FWIW, that record has been broken several time since 2002, both in Finland (Jussi Salonoja had to pay $200,000 for driving 50kph in a 25kph zone) and in Switzerland ($290,000 for driving 137kph through an 80kph zone).

See http://jalopnik.com/the-eight-biggest-speeding-tickets-ever-... for more details and more examples of high speed limits. The highest they list is $1 million, also in Switzerland, but everyone references the same article in the Telegraph, which isn't substantial enough for me.

[sschueller]

There is an article in the Swiss press about that case but no mention of what he ended up paying in the end. They did take his car as collateral which is valued at ~300,000 USD.

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/Tempo-290--...

[sschueller]

Looks like he "only" had to pay ~27,000 USD. http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/bern/story/Mit-260-auf-der-Autob...

[dalke]

Thanks for the research.