If you’re upset over a $200 speeding ticket, be glad you’re not a Virginia resident. While their traditional fine is only $100 over the national median for a first time offense, they’ve recently added a $1,050 surcharge for state residents. At $1,350 total, that’s the most expensive speeding ticket in the US for first offenders.
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For the rest of us, Georgia is the state to watch out for. First-time speeders in Georgia face a maximum fine of $1,000 and possibly even up to a year in jail. North Carolina is slightly more lenient; you can only be fined up to $1,000 and spend up to sixty days in jail. Illinois, Nevada and New Hampshire also carry maximum fines of $1,000, but no jail time.
Of course, these don’t include fines and/or jail time for multiple offenses, reckless endangerment or for speeding in construction zones. As always, the best way to avoid getting the most expensive speeding ticket (or any speeding ticket) is to avoid speeding.
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if $200.00 erks you
here in ontario, Canada
30km over the speed limit gets you a $10,000.00 fine
the most expensive speeding ticket is here in canada
50km/h (31 MPH) over the speed limit will automatically trigger “street racing” penalties — even if the accused motorist is driving alone on an otherwise empty road. The change in definition will, in effect, turn ordinary speeding into an offense that can carry a $10,000 (US $9305) fine and up to six months in jail, making it one of the most expensive traffic tickets in North America.
n June, McGuinty cited the importance of combating the “organized crime” of street racing as he urged passage of the Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act which created the $10,000 penalty. The change in definition also means that the word of a police officer is all that it takes to confiscate a car and driver’s license for at least seven days.
“There is no appeal from, or right to be heard before, a vehicle detention, driver’s license suspension or vehicle impoundment under [the street racing] subsection,” the Safer Roads Act states.
Canada has to impose such high fines to cover the free healthcare system you all have.
Euhhh ontario is 50 over and 10,000$ max fine and road side towing of your car for 7days (so you pay for that 2) and then you loose your permit for i donno but its long
Jari Bär, the Finnish millionaire and former proprietor of the Iisalmi’s company Finnritilä was given a penalty of 111,888 Euros ($143,196) for driving at 82 km/h (51mph) in a 60 km/h (37 mph) zone last January in Siilijärvi, Finland. The fine would have only been 115 Euros if the speed was 80km/h.
The enormous penalty for just a speeding ticket was explained this way. In Finland, traffic fines are dependent on the daily income of the violator. Since Mr. Bär was 2 km/h over the speed limit he had to pay an equivalent of his income in 12 days. As it turned out, Mr. Bär’s daily income in 2007 was computed at 9,300 Euros since he sold a majority stocks in his company that year. This is the reason why he had to pay a 111,888 Euro over-speeding penalty. Since Mr. Bär’s income this year is not as sizeable as that back in 2007, he is not quite happy to be cashing out such a large sum for just a speeding ticket.
i just got a 685.25 ticket for doing 120 in a 70 what do you guys think of that…… im pissed!