Not sure about this particular case, but these big tickets are often lowered after a court hearing: Since the amount is based on last official yearly taxed inco

Not sure about this particular case, but these big tickets are often lowered after a court hearing: Since the amount is based on last official yearly taxed income, it can be shown to be unfair if that income was for some reason much larger than what you are making usually. For example when Nokia board member Anssi Vanjoki got fined 116000€ for speeding (75 km/m in a 50 km/h zone), this was later lowered to 6000€ when he could show that the original amount was counted from exceptional earnings. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm => http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020301IE1 http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020301IE1