Just having a browse through the news this morning and came across two different articles where people have been fined for 2 different offences.
The first is a man who was fined £200 for putting paper in the wrong recycling bag (no-one seen him do it, but council officials on inspecting the bag found junk mail with his name/address on it).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6058952.stm
The next is a man fine £300 and 7 penelty points for hitting a car and killing the driver. At the time the car was in the cetre reservation after being involved in an earlier crash. The van driver, travelling over 70mph hit the car as he was driving too fast to see it. Had he been going under 70mph he would have probably avoided the car.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006480313,00.html
So, looking at this, a human life is worth only slightly more than an incorrectly discarded bit of paper.