Nokia Chief Gets Record Speeding Fine

FWIW, that record has been broken several time since 2002, both in Finland (Jussi Salonoja had to pay $200,000 for driving 50kph in a 25kph zone) and in Switzerland ($290,000 for driving 137kph through an 80kph zone).

See http://jalopnik.com/the-eight-biggest-speeding-tickets-ever-... for more details and more examples of high speed limits. The highest they list is $1 million, also in Switzerland, but everyone references the same article in the Telegraph, which isn't substantial enough for me.