Italian Going 168mph Gets 4 Tickets in 1 Hour

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 25, 2009 12:30 PM CDT
Italian Going 168mph Gets 4 Tickets in 1 Hour
With highways like this, how could you go 168 mph?   (AP Photo)

What's Italian for "leadfoot"? A Milanese man going 168mph was busted on four separate highway cameras in less than hour, ANSA reports. He was driving for his employer, whose lawyers argue that he should be responsible for just one infraction. They said they also plan to cite a court ruling that says signs identifying cameras must be a certain distance from a speed trap, adding: “Naturally, we do not condone such driving at all.” (More Italy stories.)

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