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‘I thought I was doing 150’: Police stop driver going 164 km/h on Ottawa highway (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by veeesix@lemmy.ca to c/ottawa@lemmy.ca

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The Ottawa Police Service is reminding drivers that telling an officer “I thought I was doing 150” will not overturn a stunt driving charge on Highway 417.

The police Road Safety and District Traffic Unit said an officer observed a driver going 164 km/h on Highway 417 at Carp Road on Monday.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, but you don’t have unrestricted autobahn in UK do you?

Sounds like it’s also a joke from your description. The process has been a default rite of passage for young people since the ‘50s, but traffic and our tolerance for safety has changed a little bit since then.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.....no

National speed limit is 70mph, so not far off Canada's 110.

Edit: it was by no means an easy go, I had taken my first road test twice, first time they failed me for not braking hard enough at a stop sign. Marked as rolling stop for the reason for failing.

Edit 2: having put on my reading comprehension hat, I now understand that you were talking about the UK licensing. 🤦 Been a long day. And yeah, absolute shambles. A fair number of people seem to be really incensed over the proposed wait between theory and road test...