The good weather seems to have whetted the appetite of some reckless drivers for speed.
At around 1:30 a.m. on May 3, a vehicle was intercepted by police while traveling at 125 mph on the southbound Laurentian Highway in Quebec City. Other road users reportedly alerted authorities to the danger.
The driver is not yet at the end of his sentence because he did not have a driver’s license. The 24-year-old Montreal native’s car was impounded for 30 days.
He also received a $1,855 fine, 24 penalty points for speeding, and a $499 penalty for not having a driver’s license.
On Champlain
Another driver also thought he was at a race track on May 6th. At approximately 3:30 p.m., the 51-year-old Lévis driver was stopped in a 60 km/h zone on Champlain Boulevard at 124 km/h. His driver’s license was suspended for seven days and he received a $1,255 fine and 14 demerits.
Each year, about 175 people are killed and nearly 9,000 others injured on Quebec’s roads by speeding.
A serious speeding offense occurs when a driver exceeds the legal speed limit by 40 km/h or more in a zone of 60 km/h or less, by 50 km/h or more in a zone of 60 km/h to 90 km/h exceeds 60 km/h or more on the motorway.
In the case of a first violation, the number of penalty points and the amount of the fine are doubled.
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