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A Finnish man was fined £83,000 for speeding because his annual income is £10.1 million

Len McCluskey might approve, but this ruthless system doesn’t make Finnish roads any safer

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes getting points on my licence and paying modest fines, and twice avoiding further points by attending speed-awareness courses to be educated in the dangers that speeding can cause. It has all sort of worked; I am now much more careful.

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