A Swedish Mercedes owner can be happy that the Swedes don't chase crazy drivers. He has to pay a fine of 2,600 kroner for speeding at 221 km/h.
It costs a Mercedes owner only 2,600 Danish kroner, even though he flew right past the police photo van at 221 km/h.
This is what Gefle Dagblad writes.
The modest fine is due to the fact that the speeding offense occurred in Sweden and not in the other Nordic countries, which have increased fines considerably in recent years.
In Denmark, the same speed would have even triggered a charge of reckless driving. But in Sweden, the Mercedes owner could simply drive past the photo van, laughing.
On the other side of the Øresund, the size of speeding tickets has not been increased in the last many years. Unlike, for example, in Norway, where even the police now think that the politicians' need to increase the fine rates is too much. Read more about it here .
Back in Sweden, the speed limit on the road where the Mercedes was speeded is set at 80 km/h. The owner of the car also denies having a speeding ticket as fast as the police say he has. In his response to the police, he writes that it is 'impossible to drive that fast on that road'.
A road the man claims to know inside and out because he has maps of the stretch many times. The man also refers the police to the grainy photo of him.
"You can't drive that fast and laugh at the same time," the police response reads.
Still, the man now risks a fine of 4,000 Swedish kronor – that's 2,600 Danish kronor. It is unknown, however, whether the prosecution, if the case reaches court, will also demand that his driving license be revoked.
Here at home, a similar speed recently resulted in a Ferrari 488 Spider, which the police seized for speeding back in April 2021, being sold at auction. The state scored over 1.7 million kroner from the sale.
The case of an Iraqi living in Norway who had just picked up a top-loaded Lamborghini in Germany when he was arrested for reckless driving that same year is, if possible, even better known.
The Iraqi subsequently said that the Danish state had seized his car. A car he later gave up on getting back. That's why the car was also sold at auction. The Dane who bought the car then put it up for sale again. This time on the German car marketplace, Mobile.de.
