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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.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 months ago

It's an automatic suspension and impounding. It will almost certainly be extended and other punishments will be handed down, but those repercussions hit immediately, no questions asked.

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Stuff like this should qualify for a lifetime suspension from driving. Extreme disregard to the safety of others.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

This should be automatic vehicle seizure and at least a decade-long license suspension.

That nice little BMW you clocked at 230+? It's going to fund the next OPP picnic.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Stunt driving is a pretty serious crime that can have jail time, this is just what they can do without a trial.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] MightyLordJason@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The 30-day suspension is at roadside. There's a court hearing which can hand down a longer one on conviction.

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Freedom Unit conversion:

Speed Limit on Highway 174: 62.14 mi/h
Car Speed: 145.4 mi/h

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That by itself means nothing to me.

What made me realize. How fast that is, is that it’s halfway to the top speed of a veyron SS

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Silly @Frog@Lemmy.ca

They forgot that US highway speed units are measured as a ratio of a veyron SS's top speed. For those that don't know, that's 7.37 billion bald eagle wingspans per presidential term.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's that in football fields per commercial break (brought to you by Carl's Jr(tm))?

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

1 VSSTS = 39.28 FF/CB

c'mon, every god fearin'merican knows that! They teach that in gunday school.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

The best part of this reply

They teach that in gunday school.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

lol I meant top speed. But bald eagle/presidential term is definitely superior

That looks like an M5, it can definitely go at 300kmh, about 75% the speed of a Veyron

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When translated to American, it's honestly not that impressive anymore. 🀷

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...yeah, buck-forty-five isn't even gentlemen's-agreement v-max...

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you'd want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 15 points 2 months ago

I don't think the driver was very fluent in risk management calculus

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And being on a track in a controlled environment. Going anywhere near this speed on a shared road is absolutely unconscionable in any conditions.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are zero tracks where you can do high speed cruising.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

There are definitely tracks where you can easily exceed 234kph.

[–] LotzaSpaghetti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Local opinion: these guys after a certain point (n + x km/h, maybe 40km/h, idk) need to have that car turned into a 1m x 1m cube. They’re not going to learn and they won’t stop driving with a ban. A 14 day suspension is nothing to these clowns and really driving is a privilege not a right.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

It's an automatic 30 days suspension and 14 day impound. They can (and almost certainly will) extend those. We'll have to see where the trial goes, but in previous cases they've lost their cars.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This happens a lot more than the cops would have you believe, but a stopped cop isn't able to catch up usually.

I know someone who did toronto to ottawa (~450km) in 2.5 hrs multiple times on a motorbike, although that was over a decade ago.

This is of course incredibly dangerous and I do not endorse this behaviour.