Newfoundland driver stopped at more than double the limit
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RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador pulled over the 24-year-old driver of a Dodge Challenger yesterday. He was doing 232 km/h on the Trans-Canada Highway near Middle Gull Pond. Where the limit is 100 km/h. They hooked the car roadside, suspended his licence and “charged him with excessive speeding, imprudent driving, and a criminal charge of dangerous driving,” according to this local report.
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What’s worse is that we’re getting numb to these charges because there are so many of them right across the country.
“In Toronto, police issued 88,142 speeding tickets and 796 stunt driving charges in the first 10 months of the pandemic. Those were increases of 151 per cent and 222 per cent respectively, compared to 2019 when 35,051 speeding tickets and 247 stunt driving charges were issued between March 1 and Dec. 31.” They just won’t stop.
But let’s not just look at these instances as isolated events, because they’re not. Driving is a team sport, and every one of these yahoos is playing on the same board that the rest of us are. That is what we have to keep in mind when we read those statistics. Quite frankly, if you’re an ass who drives your car at 232 km/h and wraps yourself around a light pole, the only people I care about are the first responders who have to pick up the bits of you and tell your next of kin.
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Last week just about 70 km from where Mr. Challenger was going 232 km/h, another clown was playing in a different circus. Police arrested the driver of a pickup truck that had been playing chicken with oncoming drivers. Here’s a picture (captured by a dashcam on a car that was sideswiped) that should make you shudder. At 5:45 in the afternoon. “Police say a truck, travelling in the oncoming lane, struck another vehicle and left the scene. The RCMP said officers attended the scene and learned that immediately prior to the crash, several other motorists were forced to evade the oncoming truck,” reported CBC.
What happens when two like this meet up? A string of charges and becoming uninsurable are the least of their worries. But people like this are definitely the scariest things on our roads.
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