The European record belongs to a Swedish tourist who in 2010 with his Mercedes SLS AMG traveled the A12 between Bern and Lausanne at 290 km per hour, or 170 km / h over the limit allowed in Switzerland. The stunt cost him about 677,000 euros, well more than the value of the car. But the heaviest fines aren’t always tied to insane speeds. In Belgium, for example, a motorist had to pay 200,000 euros in 2019 just for passing at 72 km / h in front of a speed camera in an area with a limit of 50 km / h. To make a comparison, in Italy he would have paid between 168 and 674 euros and would have deducted three points from his driving license. The Australian website Budget Direct took care of analyzing the fines for exceeding speed limits in the world and the methods of adopting the measures, drawing up a ranking of the highest fines. The first observation to start from is that the speeding fine does not always have a fixed value as in Italy. There are countries, especially in Northern Europe, where the amount of the fine is proportional to the driver’s income. Switzerland and Belgium, for example, are among them. As is Finland, where the penalty is based on a 1/16 of the monthly salary of the reckless driver and for this reason in 2009 a motorist had to pay € 125,000 for having traveled a stretch of road at 51 km / h . In the UK, however, penalties are only appropriate to the driver’s income if the driver refuses to plead guilty. According to the analysis by Budget Direct, in Europe leading the ranking of the highest speeding fines are Switzerland, Finland and Austria. But Italy is not joking about the ‘expensive fines’. Our country conquers the fourth position despite the penalties being fixed and not adequate for income. The amounts of the fines for speeding do not exceed 60 euros in Russia and Ukraine, however, where the average per capita income is much lower compared to us. Looking at other continents, it turns out that in North America the US, where sanctions vary from state to state, have the highest fines. The most expensive fine was that of around 1,770 euros issued in Oregon. On the other hand, there is Cuba where the fine for speeding reaches around 2.2 euros. In South America, the heaviest penalties are in Argentina, where you can pay up to the equivalent of 3,270 euros, while in Paraguay the fines reach a maximum of 12 euro cents. In the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, among the most severe countries with violators there are Lebanon (with fines reaching € 1,756) and Australia, where in New South Wales the penalties reach approximately € 1,500. The cheapest countries for fines are Thailand, Pakistan (both with 13.20 euros), Nepal (11.50 euros) and Syria (just 7 euro cents). In Africa it ranges from Uganda, where a speeding fine can reach 1,500 euros, to Zimbabwe where it is 1.50 euros, and in Sudan just 6 euro cents.
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