2023-10-16 06:44:04
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Connor Cato, a man from Georgia, USA, was stopped by the police for speeding at the end of September. After waiting for more than a month, he finally received a ticket. Unexpectedly, the amount of the ticket was as high as US$1.4 million (equivalent to approximately NT$45 million). Yuan). When Cato called the court for the first time to inquire, he was actually asked to pay the fine, otherwise he would have to appear in court in December.
According to the Associated Press report, Cato said in an interview that in September he drove at a speed of 145 kilometers per hour on a road in Savannah, Georgia, with a speed limit of only 89 kilometers per hour. A total of 56 kilometers over the speed limit. Of course, Cato was stopped by the police and prepared to receive a speeding ticket.
But following the actual ticket was mailed to Cato, Cato was dumbfounded by the amount on the ticket. Because the fine amount was as high as 1.4 million US dollars. Although Cato called the court to inquire, he even asked if the amount was wrong. But the court told Cato “either pay the fine or go to court in December.”
Afterwards, Savannah government officials said that according to regulations, the actual amount of the fine for any driver who exceeds the speed limit by more than 56 kilometers must be determined in court before being judged. Savannah city government spokesman Joshua Peacock later explained that the $1.4 million in fines was actually a “placeholder” automatically generated by the court’s mat summons system, and the actual amount would not exceed $1,000. The courts are currently working to improve this issue.
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