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
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.
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.
There are zero tracks where you can do high speed cruising.
There are definitely tracks where you can easily exceed 234kph.
I don’t think the driver was very fluent in risk management calculus
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.
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.
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.
