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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  • kbal@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

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

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    20 hours 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?

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    23 hours 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.

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      22 hours 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.

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      19 hours ago

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

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    22 hours ago

    Freedom Unit conversion:

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

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      22 hours 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

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        21 hours ago

        Silly @[email protected]

        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.

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          15 hours ago

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

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          21 hours ago

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

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            20 hours ago

            1 VSSTS = 39.28 FF/CB

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

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        22 hours ago

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

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    20 hours 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.

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      20 hours 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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      21 hours ago

      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