A 27-year-old man is facing several charges after police observed a vehicle traveling 134 km/h over the speed limit on Highway 174 in Ottawa’s east end.
edit: vroom vroom
At uni, got acquainted with a rich Saudi kid. Super nice guy. There was an event in a city 30 miles away. He offered a ride. Pulled up in a bright orange Corvette. Cool.
White-knuckle ride the whole way. Ridiculously fast. On the way back, he mentioned the car was his third. Somehow, he had managed to flip over and total the first two. Fell out of touch after that.
This story reminded me of him. Hope he survived college.
Tell me again why 40lb e-bikes and e-scooters need to be capped at some absurdly slow speed, but we don’t do the same to these multi-ton weapons?
32kmph is not absurdly slow for assisted ebikes. Bozos without helmets riding the blue bixis in Montreal can be dangerous.
Additionally a lot of non-e-bixies are imported from the US, or god knows where, that seem to have no cap and do not even need pedal assist. Just pull the grip on the handlebar and you accelerate. In Europe we call those e-mopeds. But for some reason here it’s an ebike.
Edit: to add, I agree. Cars should definitely have caps based on jurisdiction. But I assume it will be bypassed just like other things, and this guy would probably have been among the ones to get their hands on one of those vehicles anyway.
That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you’d want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.
And being on a track in a controlled environment. Going anywhere near this speed on a shared road is absolutely unconscionable in any conditions.
The stunt driving charge includes a 30-day licence suspension and the vehicle is impounded for 14 days.
Driving dangerously fast and endangering the lives of other drivers and then flees from the cops and is still allowed to drive after a month?
There is something seriously wrong here.
The 30-day suspension is at roadside. There’s a court hearing which can hand down a longer one on conviction.
