A 16-year-old BC driver was handed almost $1,800 in fines and had his stepmother’s car impounded for seven days after speeding then crashing into a dump truck.
On the afternoon of July 25, the BC Highway Patrol caught a grey BMW driving at 180 km/h in a 100 zone on Highway 1 in Popkum.
Due to the high speed, the car was not pursued.
“To the officer, the speeding grey BMW made other highway traffic look like it was standing still,” said Corporal Michael McLaughlin with BC Highway Patrol.
A few minutes later, a driver called the RCMP to report that a BMW had run a stop sign and hit his parked dump truck.
When the police arrived, they determined it was the same car that sped away from the BC Highway Patrol officers.
A 16-year-old boy with a class seven learner’s licence was behind the wheel and had two other teenage boys as his passengers.
He was handed a 12-month driving prohibition due to the high risk driving report that was submitted to the BC Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, the BCHP said in a news release.
The car was towed and impounded for seven-days, which the owner will have to pay.
The young driver was handed a $483 ticket for excessive speeding and another totalling $368 for driving without due care and attention.
Other fines include”
$109 for passing on the right
$167 failing to obey a stop sign
$109 driving without a supervisor as a learner
$109 driving with too many passengers as a learner
$109 driving without an “L” sign.
$109 for a cracked windshield.
$230 improper display of a front licence plate.
That’s a grand total of $1,793.
“The passengers were not impressed. Hopefully the driver will learn that peer pressure works both ways,” said Corporal McLaughlin.
“He will also have to explain why his stepmother’s car is sitting in an impound lot with thousands of dollars in damage.”
