Taxi driver got ticket for 420 mph!?

[Charger_Croatia]

I found this article in one local on-line magazine.

Tom Matthews almost got heart attack when received an envelope with ticket for speeding. He got penalty for driving 420 mph on 30 mph zone with his Opel Vectra 1.6 (taxi)
He was complaining on the penalty saying "I am a taxi driver, not a Jumbo Jet pilot! If they insist for me to pay, than I'm loosing my time behind this steering wheel, I should go on race tracks!"

His complaint was accepted with apology from the company in charge for those fix mounted cameras. It seems that they are familiar with similar cases of over 400 mph speeds.

[CharlieCharger]

Thats something you would just have to laugh about ..There is no way you would be liable to pay that 

[Old Moparz]

It's an obvious mistake that they apologized for, but if you got a ticket like that in the USA, chances are you'd have to go to court to argue. I can almost guarantee that if you ignored it you'd have a warrant issued for your arrest too. You'd also have your license revoked, your insurance would be increased, & it would stay on your driving record forever & ever.   

[CharlieCharger]

It's an obvious mistake that they apologized for, but if you got a ticket like that in the USA, chances are you'd have to go to court to argue. I can almost guarantee that if you ignored it you'd have a warrant issued for your arrest too. You'd also have your license revoked, your insurance would be increased, & it would stay on your driving record forever & ever.   

I'm starting to think You and I have had past experiences 

[69_Hemi_Charger]

It's an obvious mistake that they apologized for, but if you got a ticket like that in the USA, chances are you'd have to go to court to argue. I can almost guarantee that if you ignored it you'd have a warrant issued for your arrest too. You'd also have your license revoked, your insurance would be increased, & it would stay on your driving record forever & ever.   

God bless America..... 

[bull]

Dang. I didn't know Opels were so fast.

[CharlieCharger]

Dang. I didn't know Opels were so fast.

Stick a couple of Rolls-Royce Trent 900`s, and I bet it could..

[Old Moparz]

I'm starting to think You and I have had past experiences 

  Not so much me, but a close friend.

I know one guy I went to high school with, who didn't have his license for over 10 years. He had gotten a ticket, paid the fine, got the receipt, & that was that. (Or so one would think.) He was stopped months later for something, gets another ticket, then learns he has an outstanding warrant for not paying the fine that he really did pay. He goes to court to pay his (2nd) ticket, & then resolves the warrant issued because he produced the old receipt to show he paid the original ticket. It turns out the fine "WAS" paid, but never recorded with the DMV for whatever reason.

The outstanding warrant thing is a done deal at this point & both tickets were paid. When he gets another bill/notice that said he needed to pay a fine, he decides to ignore it knowing that he paid, & that it was probably just an overlap in the mail. Eventually he moves, but doesn't follow up on changing his address immediately with the DMV because he was going to do that when he renewed & save a trip to the DMV. Turns out, the DMV already started the process of revoking his license, & neither the court, nor my friend, knew about the DMV notice of revocation.

Some time later, he's driving his boss's truck & is stopped for an illegal turn or something. He now learns that he's on the revoked list & is issued 2 tickets, one for the turn, & one for driving with a revoked license. Driving on the revoked list gets him arrested, so he now had to go to court again. Seems that by ignoring what he thought was an overlap in mail, then moving, he never got the actual letter that stated his license was revoked. At this point, he doesn't have papers & receipts because he had moved & either lost them, or threw them out.

He goes to court to explain that he never should have gotten his license revoked because he paid the tickets, but whether that is true or not, he now has a ticket for driving with a revoked license & needs to resolve it. All fines are paid, but he doesn't have his license, can't renew his car's registration, his insurance goes through the roof because his driving record at the DMV indicates he had his license revoked. The state of NJ also has a mandatory surcharge for 3 years on top of his high insurance cost.

He gave up on trying to get his driver's license back because he refused pay the surcharges & fees that would run into the $1000's. He ended up getting a job in NYC that he could commute by train to. He finally did get it back, but hopefully he won't ignore a notice whether it's accurate or not.   

[CharlieCharger]

Thats why if I get a ticket I always keep it for at least 5 years along with the receipts  Sounds like a nightmare for your friend though

[hemigeno]

Although that's a good one, my favorite camera/ticket story is still this one OldMoparz found:

Guilty of Running Red Light in Rowboat

[dkn1997]

It's an obvious mistake that they apologized for, but if you got a ticket like that in the USA, chances are you'd have to go to court to argue. I can almost guarantee that if you ignored it you'd have a warrant issued for your arrest too. You'd also have your license revoked, your insurance would be increased, & it would stay on your driving record forever & ever.   

that's not always the case.  I went to college in a small town upstate and got a ticket for going the wrong way down a one way street.  It was my freshman year and I was pretty unfamiliar with the area, so I did not argue with the cop.  Later that night I was sharing an 80 proof rant about how it sucked getting my first ticket ever when one guy in the group, after hearing where and how I got pulled over says "dude, you were going the right way"  I went down to the police station the next day with the ticket and the cop who issued it was there.  they got him and he remembered me.  when I asked him to think about where he pulled me over and what the ticket was for, he apoloziged and took the ticket and said 'I'll take care of it" 

maybe because I caught it so early in the process?  I don't know....decent enough guy though to admit his mistake (In a town where everyone pretty much hated the college students)

[Silver R/T]

turbo opels are quick

[kab69440]

If I got a 400mph+ speeding ticket, that sucker would be framed and on my living room wall  !