{"id":623986,"date":"2010-01-07T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=48325"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:30:43","slug":"speeding-millionaire-driver-fined-290000-tops-previous-record-of-107391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/623986","title":{"rendered":"Speeding millionaire driver fined $290,000, tops previous record of $107,391"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re pretty sure it feels amazing to break records – but what about breaking a record for speeding and ending up in court? An unidentified millionaire raked up a record fine of 299,000 Swiss francs ($290,000 USD) after Swiss police caught him driving his red Ferrari Testarossa through a village at 62 mph. He was also clocked at speeds of up to 85 mph on country roads.<\/p>\n

A northeastern Swiss court of St. Gallen gave the man his hefty penalty, which significantly exceeds the previous record of 111,000 francs ($107,391 USD)\u00a0handed to a Porsche driver in 2008.<\/p>\n

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“The accused ignored elementary traffic rules with a powerful vehicle out of a pure desire for speed,” the court said in its judgment.<\/p>\n

Of course, $290,000 dollars is nothing for a man that has a\u00a023.3 million franc fortune ($22.5 million USD), including a villa with a large garage holding five luxury cars.<\/p>\n

– By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

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We’re pretty sure it feels amazing to break records – but what about breaking a record for speeding and ending up in court? An unidentified millionaire raked up a record fine of 299,000 Swiss francs ($290,000 USD) after Swiss police caught him driving his red Ferrari Testarossa through a village at 62 mph. He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Cki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}