ROCKLAND, Maine American Pie singer Don McLean has been fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a Maine school zone and has paid the levy.
McLean contested the charge in September, saying school zone warning lights weren t flashing. Police said in Rockland District Court on Thursday they were flashing.
The Bangor Daily News reports police say McLean was driving 43 mph when the limit was 15.
A judge found McLean was speeding in the Rockport school zone but lowered what would be a $515 fine if uncontested to $400.
McLean immediately paid up.
McLean lives in nearby Camden, along Maine s coast. He burst into popularity in 1971 with his hit American Pie, about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959 -- The Day the Music Died.
