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Citing this as an example. . .isn't this reasonable enough punishment!!?

The fastest driver ever caught in a routine speed check in the UK has been sentenced to 10 weeks in jail.
Timothy Brady, 33, of Earls Crescent, Harrow, north-west London, pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court to dangerous driving.
Brady was clocked at 172mph in a Porsche 911 Turbo in a 70mph zone on the A420 in Oxfordshire on 27 January.

He was banned from driving for three years and will have to take an extended driving test to get another licence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7009923.stm

I think the penalty is much more than the crime.
Say 1month Jail term with an option of N50,000 fine would have made more sense foe a 1st time offender.

Make Goodluck dey learn o. Any one that drives oneway against his anticorruption campaign should follow suit.

Paul John: But this bankers are wicked. They're begging for the release of the Bullion van and not even the driver

Are they the ones that asked the foolish driver to drive against traffic? Now he has put the bank in gbese!

kunletiwoo: Don't you know that the offence in question can cause someone's life? Well I think the judgement is worth the crime oo.

when it causes someone's life, it will no longer be a traffic violation. It becomes involuntary manslaugter =imprisonment for life.