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Moto Guzzi rider issued with 383mph speeding ticket

Italian Police blame bungled paperwork over bizarre speeding fine
Posted: 6 November 2009
by Visordown News
Turina and 383mph speeding fine

AN ITALIAN motorcycle rider has been charged with speeding at 383mph on an unfaired Moto Guzzi.

Paolo Turina, 26, is appealing against the charge, claiming the speed camera must have been defective. He is also disputing the £200 fine Police have issued the not-so-speedy Italian.

"If I could go that fast I'd enter my bike in the MotoGP world championships. Valentino Rossi would not stand a chance. What did they think they were clocking - a jet fighter?" said Mr Turina.
"If the court rules the fine will stand then I'm going to send it to the Guinness Book of Records - after all if the court says its true then I should get the credit for this remarkable feat."

Turina's Moto Guzzi has an estimated top speed of around 115mph.

Italian Police have said they suspect a clerical error is to blame for the botched charge.
The appeal court has not yet made a decision on the case.

Last month, Turina had been riding his Moto Guzzi motorcycle in the municipality of Cernusco Lombardone in Lombardy when a Telelaser Ultralyte device recorded him passing by. The letter from the municipal police suggested that Turina had exceeded the fastest recorded MotoGP race speed of 217 MPH, set in June by Dani Pedrosa at the Mugello, Italy, by 166 MPH. Municipal police admitted the speed may have been printed on the ticket in error, but that the citation itself was valid.

“I was told that the [speed] check was carried out properly, because in the picture you see that I was going to 87km/h (54 MPH),” Turina told the Giornale di Merate newspaper. “It was probably a simple clerical error by the agent. In the end the blame for the fine was passed to me, which cost me less than five points on my license and more than 200 euros (US $296).”