Paying a speeding ticket in Finland can be very expensive or very cheap depending on the income of the driver. The country has not adopted a fixed price for paying violations under the system of daily traffic police fines for some violations, starting at a speed of more than 20 km / h. The amount of fines imposed on violators is related to the income of the driver who committed them. If the violation involves speeding, the applicable penalty is commensurate with the speeding. For example, photographer Ronnie Rikoma was punished with 99 km/h for speeding 50 km/h with a 27-day fine, bringing the final amount to 594 euros, because he did not receive much money last year. Today’s underpaid Ronnie Rikoma would have been fined €2,349 for the same speeding.
This Finnish system of offenses leads to rather ridiculous fines. In 2002, a speeding ticket committed by a Nokia manager was set at €116,000 for driving at 75 km/h on a 50 km/h road. This fine is not at all a record for Europe, as Switzerland has a similar progressive system of penalties.
The highest fine ever in Switzerland was CHF 3,600 per day for 300 days when the fine was the equivalent of CHF 1,080,000. This record-breaking fine was imposed on a Swedish driver who was caught speeding 290 km/h in Switzerland.
