Calculate your potential speeding fine according to the German system!

Ahhhh for forks sake!

https://rechneronline.de/bussgeld/speeding-fines.php

Use this handy tool! Enter in the fastest you've ever driven, the speed limit which applied at the time and whether or not you were in a town!

Let's see how much everyone would have been fined / banned or points if you were prosecuted according to the German system!

Don't post your actual speed to keep the high horses away (unless you want to).

I'd have received a €200 fine, 2 points and a 1 month ban.


This should be a nice game

OldMrBrennan83

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James Bond Junior

€440 fine, 2 points, 2 months suspended license. What do I win?

dar83

€1280 , 2 points and 3 months suspended.

Probably not worth it....

vandriver

1360 fine

JC01

1280e, 2 points, 3month ban. To be honest I could accept that in the case I was caught.

Over here the same offence would of cost me probably a 2+year ban and a complete inability to insure anything legitimately for a few years after that.

carloscorreia

€240 fine, 2 points and 1 month suspended

dr.fuzzenstein

€240, 2 points and 1 month suspended.
Not too bad for the speed in was going

larchill

A very benign system!

dr.fuzzenstein

larchill wrote: »

A very benign system!

I think it's proportional.
If you do some serious speed, endanger someone or cause a crash, it gets very harsh with a lot of points, fines in the thousands and loss of license for a long time.
And you don't just get your license back, you have to pass the full driving test plus an idiot test first.

_Brian

€1280, 2 points, 3 month ban.

colm_mcm

€1280, 2 points, 3 months suspended.

Heres Johnny

1280, 2 points, 3 months.

I put in 250 kmph which was indicated or very close to it on my old 530i once and only once and it came up as 1280.

Then I realised I don't think it was really doing 250kmph as it exaggerates speed in most cars, and I don't think that car really has 250kmph in it so I reduced it to 240kmph which is 150mph.

Fine reduced to 640 euro then but same ban and points.

CiniO

Maurice Riordan wrote: »

Use this handy tool! Enter in the fastest you've ever driven, the speed limit which applied at the time and whether or not you were in a town!

Let's see how much everyone would have been fined

Well according to your criteria, the fastest I ever driven was 217 km/h (according to my speedometer) but there was no speed limit, so there would be no fine.

But if you're asking about how much above speed limit I ever was - hard to say exactly but I'd say way over 100km/h above the limit. Even today I was doing 160 km/h on R road with 80km/h speed limit. No fines though, as there were no gardai on sight. But in Germany it would be €640, 2 points and 3 months ban.

CiniO

I don't understand this calculator.
Why does it show fines of €1280 or so, if table only goes up to €640 in built-up area and €680 outside built-up area ?

Peatys

€640 fine, 2pts and 3 month ban. Bought a new car and wanted to top it out once. Empty n7 on a clear day.

K.Flyer

1280 euro fine, 2 points and off the road for 3 months, ouch.
Luckily there were no speed cameras around at the time.

GM228

CiniO wrote: »

I don't understand this calculator.
Why does it show fines of €1280 or so, if table only goes up to €640 in built-up area and €680 outside built-up area ?

+1, max fine in Germany is €640/€680 for 70km/ plus.

mikeecho

€1360 + 2points & 3 month ban

Doltanian

Seems a lot fairer than shooting fish in a barrel in a 50kmh zone like two miles outside of a town because town planners can’t plan.

Peatys

Fines for speeding in town even up to 70 over the limit seem excessively light

Beta Ray Bill

€1280, 2 points, 3 months suspended.

But in reality I hit 330Km/h on a German Autobahn where there was no speed limit. So there would have been no fine/points/ban.
Very law abiding so I am!

Vicxas

Awh a €140 fine and a 1 month suspension.....

Wibbs

Another €640 fine, 2pts and 3 month ban. *Allegedly* When I got a car new to me and wanted to see what it would top out out. *Allegedly* TBH I was going faster as the speedo runs out at 190kms(limited in its country of origin), but going on the gearing and revs *Allegedly* add another 40 kph to that, before I got the fear *Allegedly*.



*Allegedly*...

heroics

€640, 2 points, 3 months suspended.

So basically I can just do +20 over the limit and if caught pay 30€. and if in a rush do 160 on the motorway and its only 1 point and 120€. I'd be ok with that

IrishZeus

€1280, 2 points, 3 months

DaveyDave

€640, 2 points, 3 month ban.

We definitely need some much bigger fines here.

morritty

CiniO wrote: »

I don't understand this calculator.
Why does it show fines of €1280 or so, if table only goes up to €640 in built-up area and €680 outside built-up area ?

When the speed is at least twice as high as allowed, fines above 55 € usually are doubled

joujoujou

DiamondC

€1360 - 2 Points - 3 Month suspension

bladespin

€1280 2 points 3 month ban eek!

ninja 12

€1280 fine , 2 points, 3 months ban .

It's been a while since I did silly speeds

legomanx51v

This really happened
80€ and on the insurers radar for 3 years :mad:

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For Forks Sake

Fine: €440

Points:2

Suspended driving licence: 2 months

Is there any way to calculate the likes of the Swiss or Norwegian systems where the fine is based on your income?

iamtony

legomanx51v wrote: »

This really happened
80€ and on the insurers radar for 3 years :mad:

No points for that that's the way it should be. I've 5 points for a similar event in Dublin on Sunday at 7am on ncr. I was doing 57kph. Obviously the 5 pointa is for not paying and going to court but still.

Ahhhh for forks sake!

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Is there any way to calculate the likes of the Swiss or Norwegian systems where the fine is based on your income?

The Finnish system has a system called "day fines".

Usually, the day-fine is one half of daily disposable income. The daily disposable income is considered to be one 60th part of the person's monthly mean income during the year, after taxes, social security payments and a basic living allowance of €255 per month have been deducted.

So it would be:
(((Average net monthly income for the year)/60)/2)-255.

The number of day fines you are fined depends upon the amount you are over, whether it is in a town or outside etc.

GM228

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Is there any way to calculate the likes of the Swiss or Norwegian systems where the fine is based on your income?

In Norway they levy 10% of your annual income on top of a fixed fine amount.

Switzerland (and Finland) operate just on a % of annual income subject to minimum thresholds and severity of offence.

GM228

Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »

The Finnish system has a system called "day fines".

Usually, the day-fine is one half of daily disposable income. The daily disposable income is considered to be one 60th part of the person's monthly mean income during the year, after taxes, social security payments and a basic living allowance of €255 per month have been deducted.

So it would be:
(((Average net monthly income for the year)/60)/2)-255.

The number of day fines you are fined depends upon the amount you are over, whether it is in a town or outside etc.

Jussi Salonoja s believed to be the world record holder for the single biggest fine for speeding, he was 40 km/h over the 40 km/h speed limit when caught in Finland in 2004, based on their system he got a fine of €160,,000.

For Forks Sake

GM228 wrote: »

Jussi Salonoja s believed to be the world record holder for the single biggest fine for speeding, he was 40 km/h over the 40 km/h speed limit when caught in Finland in 2004, based on their system he got a fine of €160,,000.

That's been topped since.

A Swiss millionaire has been handed down a record speeding fine of $290,000 (£180,000) by a court.

A speeding Swedish driver is facing the world‘s biggest ever motoring fine of 650,000 euros - around £538,000 - after being clocked at 180mph while driving through Switzerland.