Fluff : The Mother of All speed fines

2000-11-02 Thread Lanouette, Richard 



 reported today in the morning newspaper:

 "A Benoni motorcyclist will have to dig deep into his pockets to settle a
 R45 000 speeding fine he recently received from the traffic authorities.

 The man was caught driving 304 km/h on his Suzuki motorcycle on the
 Trompsburg/Colesberg road on 20 October".

 Just to put this in perspective for our *foreign* subscribers - a new
SV650S
 costs R47 000 here.

 The road they are talking about is through the Karoo desert - between
 CapeTown and Johannesburg. It is completely straight and flattish, but is
 NOT a dual lane highway. The posted speed limit is 120 km/h. He was caught
 with a Prolazer at 486 meters.

 The rider is a 54 year old engineer with a local city council very close
to
 where I live. I think he was *lucky* to get a fine - he could have been
 banned from driving/riding for life.

 Guess he'll have to sell that "busa(?) to pay the fine!  Maybe I should
buy
 it - the last of the de-restricted's and I *know* it does at least 304 !!

Re: Fluff : The Mother of All speed fines

2000-11-02 Thread RangerJay 

I know we are all curious, so I ran the conversions.
Fine - $6,007 US
Speed - 188.9 mph

486 meters (distance of the laser gun reading the speed) - 0.3 miles.

In a message dated 11/2/00 1:47:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

 "A Benoni motorcyclist will have to dig deep into his pockets to settle a
 R45 000 speeding fine he recently received from the traffic authorities.

 The man was caught driving 304 km/h on his Suzuki motorcycle on the
 



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Re: Fluff : The Mother of All speed fines

2000-11-02 Thread pbenson 


And I did the rest of the math.that's $31.80 per mph.   :)


On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I know we are all curious, so I ran the conversions.
 Fine - $6,007 US
 Speed - 188.9 mph

RE: Fluff : The Mother of All speed fines

2000-11-02 Thread Henry S. Winokur 

And pretty close to the top end of that bike, too. :)
 
 And I did the rest of the math.that's $31.80 per mph.   :)
 
 
 On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I know we are all curious, so I ran the conversions.
  Fine - $6,007 US
  Speed - 188.9 mph