Opel Astra Driver Sent Fine After Allegedly Doing 432mph

A computer glitch caused a Belgian driver to be sent a fine with a rather improbable speed listed

08 May 2018

Opel Astra Driver Sent Fine After Allegedly Doing 432mph

A Belgian motorist received a nice little surprise through the post recently - a speeding fine which alleged he’d been travelling at 696kph (432mph).

The man apparently clocked the speed in the town of Quiévrain near the French border. For the sake of comparison, that speed is a little slower than the cruising speed of a turboprop airliner, and almost as fast as Speed Demon - the current record holder for the fastest car powered by an internal combustion engine.

Of course, he wasn’t actually driving that fast. After writing to local authorities questioning the absurd claimed speed, it transpired that the figure was the result of an “encoding error.”

That’s not to say he got out of paying a fine, however - the Opel driver was actually doing a more modest 60kmh, which is still over the posted limit…

Source: The Telegraph

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Comments

432 mph? Rather improbable? I do that in my sleep.

There is nothing impossible. Chase your dreams!!

I love how it says that the revised speed is still 654.24 km/h: not 654 km/h, no sir, 654.24 km/h

As far I know,I live in the flemish part of belgium,and I never had it like that,it’s normally a round number,maybe in french part they do it like this,don’t know for sure

Because 654.23 km/h is fine almost expected

i think koeningsegg,bugatti, and hennessy are all trying to take buy the car to find out what modifications went down for this “speed that was hit”

Clarkson be like’

Must’ve got hit by this while opening and closing the menu

Like JackUltraMotive’s video. WHOAAA! WHOAAA MYY GOOODD!!! OHHH MAAAYY GOOODDD!!! I BROKE THE GAME I BROKE THE GAME I BROKE THE GAME

I wonder if he went through the portal while he was at it.

Propably

I would have paid the fine and claim the world speed record lmao

Lmao, good idea. “Man in Yugo 45 caught speeding 13456KM/H on autobahn. Sets a new record.”

this is the funniest s* i have ever seen ahaha!XD how could they mess up so badly? like imagine koenigsegg and Henessey or any fast or drag cars seeing this but not looking at the part of the mistake and they were like -spits drink out- WHAT!?!!!