瑞典男子过度超速面临65万英镑罚款

瑞典一名男子因过度超速将面临高达65万英镑的罚款，开创了全球最高的超速罚金纪录。

Police with the black Mercedes Benz they caught doing 180mph.

A Swedish motorist（驾车旅行的人） is facing the world's biggest ever speeding fine of £650,000 after being caught driving at 180mph on a Swiss motorway¹（高速公路） .

The 37-year-old Swedish man was driving at two and a half times the speed limit in his £140,000 Mercedes and police said he was travelling so fast it took him some distance to stop.

In Switzerland speeding fines are worked out using a formula based on the income of the motorists and the severity of the speed. According to prosecutors² he is now facing the highest possible penalty（罚款，罚金） of 300 days of fines at £2,166 a day – a total of £650,000.

"We have no record of anyone being caught travelling faster in the country," said a police spokesman, after they.

He was caught by a speed camera on the A12 highway between Bern and Lausanne on Friday.

He escaped being zapped（摧毁，击溃） by numerous radars⁴ en-route simply because he was going too fast and they were incapable⁵ of clocking speeds beyond 200kph (125mph). It was a new generation of radar³ machines that finally caught him travelling at close to 300kph (186mph).

"I think the speedo（速度计） on the car, which is new, is faulty," he told police by way of an explanation.

The police arrested him shortly afterward⁶ and released him after questioning.

Benoît Dumas, a police officer in the region where the six-litre Mercedes SLS was stopped, said: "He needed over half-a-kilometre of road to come to a halt."