Speeding Fines

[andrewducker]

octopoid_horror let me know about the Finnish system of administering speeding fines:
KPH over the speed limit x daily salary.

So if you're 10KPH over the speed limit and earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, then you're in for quite a large fine.

Apparently this is how all reasonable sized fines work in Finland - they're expressed in days of pay.

I'm in favour.

Comments

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I partly agree with you, though I still maintain that when you set a speed limit, people will not only try to drive at that speed, but expect other road users to do so. Consequently, when you drive under the speed limit you are as much of a danger as someone driving over it (on a single lane carriageway that is).

I should point out that I agree that those who drive excessively fast should be punished, but that the punishment outlined by Andy is of itself excessive. The truth is (having looked up on the finnish government website) that this fine only comes into force if you exceed the speed limit by 20 KPH, but there are examples of someone being fined 118,000 euros for going at 82 KPH in a 60, whereas if he was going at 80 KPH he would have been fined 110 euros. There is something wrong here...

[andrewducker]

Nope, sounds right to me. He'd crossed from "possibly just being careless" into "Deliberately driving dangerously faster than allowed". You have to have cut-offs somewhere, and then when people are being that stupid you hit them somewhere hard.