It was fast and then furious.
A man caught speeding on a Georgia highway was left baffled when police fined him $1.4 million last month.
Connor Cato was driving home through Savannah on Sept. 2 when the Georgia State Patrol caught him going 90 in a 55 mile per hour zone, he admitted to WSAV-TV.
Although he expected a hefty fine, Cato was shocked when he was hit with the seven-figure charge.
He called the court assuming the fee was a typo, but was reportedly told he had to pay the sum or appear in court.
“’$1.4 million,’ the woman told me on the phone. I told her, ‘This may be a typo,’ and she said, ‘No sir, either pay the fine amount or come to court on December 21 at 1:30 pm,’” she told the local outlet. .
The man was caught speeding on a highway and was fined $1.4 million last month. Getty Images/iStockphoto
Criminal defense lawyer Sneh Patel said he had never seen such a high fine for a minor offence.
“Not $1.4 million; that’s something that goes toward drug trafficking cases, murder cases or aggravated assault cases, something of that nature,” he told WSAV.
Luckily for Cato, the huge price actually reflected a “placeholder” that he was never expected to pay.
The man called the court thinking the fee was a typo, but was told he had to pay the fine or appear in court.WSAV
The staggering figure was generated by electronic citation software used by the local Recorder’s Court that is automatically issued to “super speeders,” anyone caught going more than 35 miles over the speed limit, said Joshua Peacock, a government spokesman. the city of Savannah.
A judge will set the actual fine, which cannot exceed $1,000, plus state-mandated costs, at the mandatory court appearance.
“We did not post that placeholder as a threat to scare anyone into going to court, even if this person heard it differently than someone in our organization,” Peacock said in a statement.
The fine was generated by electronic citation software used by the local Recorder’s Court that is automatically applied to “super speedsters.” Getty Images/iStockphoto
“The programmers who designed the software used as many as possible because speeding tickets are a mandatory court appearance and do not carry a fine when issued by police.”
The city has been using the new system since 2017, but is “currently working to adjust the placeholder language to avoid any confusion.”
With postal cables
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