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[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Massive fine gives Alberta speeder 12,000 reasons to slow down

Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, August 30, 2008



A 34-year-old Alberta man was handed a $12,000 speeding fine this week after police caught him roaring down the highway at 263 kilometres per hour -- more than twice the posted speed limit. An RCMP officer near Edson, Alta., saw the speeding Honda motorcycle blur past him last May on a stretch of Highway 16, between Edson and Hinton, Alta. The speed limit is 110 km/h. The officer gave chase, but was unable to match his speed, said RCMP Sergeant Ron Lyons. The same officer later spotted the motorcycle in Hinton and made the arrest. In a plea bargain earlier this week, the speeding motorcyclist agreed to pay the unusually high fine in exchange for being allowed to keep his licence. "I've never seen a fine like that before," Sgt. Lyons said. "A fine of $1,000 is usually a lot." Earlier this summer, the Hinton Traffic Court slapped an $8,500 fine on a 25-year-old Prince George, B. C., man for driving 206 km/h on the same stretch of highway.

[lynx42]

I'm not proud of him, but my young bloke held the Victorian record for illegal road speed for a while.

Geoff has a Holden Maloo Utility and was caught at 236km/h, in a 100km/h zone. We had to fight hard to keep him out of the slammer. In the end he was only fines $1,000 and 12months loss of licence.

The Holden Maloo ute is nothing more that a race car in a utility body. These 6.3litre, 6 speed utes will do around 300km/h. Well liked by the younger set and costing around $67,000.
I hope that he has learnt his lesson because if he's picked up again, he will forfit the vehicle and end up in the slammer.
Regards Rick

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

There have been recently one or two lunatics caught doing about 140 mph in England. On TV recently on one of thsoe reality police video shows one idiot was caught doing 100 mph on his bike in a 60 mph limit. If you do 30 mph over the limit here, say 100 on a motorway, you are going to get a ban.
The fastest I have been in a car in England is 120 in Porsche 911 Turbo and a Vauxhall nee Opel Senator.

[servicepub (RIP)]

In an effort to reduce street racing, which has claimed the lives of both pedestrians and other drivers in major centres, the Ontario government introduced a new law last year. The police may now confiscate your car on the spot and give you a fine up to $10,000 if you are caught doing 50Km or more over the posted speed. Unfortunately, most police now see this as a method of reducing highway speeding.

[gjamo]

Thank god we drive blitzes. I cant find a cliff high enough around there to get it up to the speed limit.