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Driver spotted going 234 km/h on Hwy. 174 in Ottawa's east end

ottawa.ctvnews.ca Driver spotted going 234 km/h on Hwy. 174 in Ottawa's east end

A 27-year-old man is facing several charges after police observed a vehicle travelling 134 km/h over the speed limit on Highway 174 in Ottawa's east end.

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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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.
- 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.
- Stuff like this should qualify for a lifetime suspension from driving. Extreme disregard to the safety of others.
- 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.
- Stunt driving is a pretty serious crime that can have jail time, this is just what they can do without a trial.

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.

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

Freedom Unit conversion:
Speed Limit on Highway 174: 62.14 mi/h
Car Speed: 145.4 mi/h
- 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
  
  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.
  
  That looks like an M5, it can definitely go at 300kmh, about 75% the speed of a Veyron
- When translated to American, it's honestly not that impressive anymore. 🤷
  
  ...yeah, buck-forty-five isn't even gentlemen's-agreement v-max...

That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you'd want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.
- I don't think the driver was very fluent in risk management calculus
- And being on a track in a controlled environment. Going anywhere near this speed on a shared road is absolutely unconscionable in any conditions.
  
  There are zero tracks where you can do high speed cruising.

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.

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.
- 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.

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.

Yeah but it’s Canada people don’t live there.

WTF is this doing on the fediverse lol jfc
Let's do local crime next 🤡
- Canadian news posted on the canada community on lemmy.ca....geee whiz wonder why that's there
  fuck off and learn what federation means genius

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