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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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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours 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.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago

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 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] delirious_owl 11 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours 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.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day 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 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] MightyLordJason@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Freedom Unit conversion:

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

[-] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 15 hours ago

The best part of this reply

They teach that in gunday school.

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

[-] LotzaSpaghetti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 1 day 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.

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