[KarlInOhio]

£500 for 47 mph in a 40 mph zone? Some of the cops in the US just moaned in delight.

[Stoat]

£500 for 47 mph in a 40 mph zone? Some of the cops in the US just moaned in delight.

 

Currency conversion to USD as per today's rates:

500.00 GBP United Kingdom Pounds	=	981.304 USD United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.96261 USD		1 USD = 0.509526 GBP

 

Nearly a thousand dollars for a speed infraction of 7mph over the limit is far higher than anything I've heard of here in the USA....except perhaps in a school zone, and the article doesn't state that this was the case in the reported instance.