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“Ottawa’s roads are not speedways,” the unit warned, adding that the stunt driving charge included a 30-day driver’s license suspension and a 14-day vehicle impoundment. On Monday night, a 16-year-old driver with a G1 license “learned the hard way that speeding is costly,” the unit said. The teenager stopped going 114 km/h in a 60 km/h zone on Hazeldean Road, police said, earned a 30-day license suspension and a 14-day vehicle impoundment. A reminder to parents: the vehicle is towed and impounded after a driving charge, whether the accused driver owns it or not.
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Stunt driving — which involves speeding more than 50 km/h over the limit or 40 km/h or more on roads with a speed limit of less than 80 km/h — carries penalties that include fines of $2,000 to $10,000 and license suspensions of one to three years for a first conviction and life for a third. A conviction also earns you six demerit points and a mandatory driver improvement course. The risk of death or serious injury is 11 times higher in motorway crashes occurring at 50km/h or more over the speed limit than when vehicles collide at or below the posted speed limit, according to the Department for Transport data.
