Very Expensive Lesson
Thursday, March 7, 2013 @ 1:26 PM
Fort St. John, B.C. – A Fort St. John teen will have a hefty bill to pay to get his truck out of the impound lot after being nailed for driving at an excessive speed.
RCMP Corporal Tim Paulmert says spotted a pick up truck barrelling down the highway near Charlie Lake heading into Fort St. John during the noon hour yesterday.
A member of the Integrated Road Safety Unit, RCMP Corporal Tim Paulmert says he can usually guess a vehicle’s speed within 5 kms or so of the actual speed, but this vehicle, a ½ ton Dodge Ram pick up was moving just too fast. Corporal Paulmert says he could hardly believe his eyes when the radar pin pointed the speed of the vehicle “The radar said 169 kilometres an hour and this was a 70 kilometre zone.”
Corporal Paulmert says in his 9 years with the RCMP he has issued tickets to drivers whose vehicles were clocked at the 169 km mark, but never to a driver who was doing 169 in a 70. To top it off, this driver had the green “N” on the back of the vehicle.
The truck was towed, and immediately impounded.
While the teen could challenge the ticket, here is how the bills will stack up :
Ticket $483.00
Tow truck $100.00 ( average)
Impound fees $140.00 (7 full days at $20 per day)
Insurance $320.00 driver risk premium in each of the next few years
There is also a possibility the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles will pull this young man’s license after reviewing the report.
Comments
A couple days work on the oil patch.
JB beat me to it … there has to be a suspension if there is going to be a meaningful message sent!!!
Having to walk will do him some good.
Suspension for sure. That’s frightening and I am not that old to remember how young people forget they are mortal. His parents should send a letter of thanks to that police officer for saving their son’s life.
Can a Dodge pickup actually go that fast??
Hemi power
downhill ….
With a tail wind.
Hemi powered Fiat.
Wow, you don’t say, a young guy, driving a Dodge Ram pick-up like an ass? Go figure.
Yup, they seem to drive like the repo man is chasing them. No money, no credit, you can still buy a Dodge.
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169? perhaps things have changed or the truck was doctored, or……. the radar wasnt calibrated correctly. almost all vehicles have speed governors that cut the engine way down at 162kph (100mph).
There has never been a governer put on a vehicle unless requested. Not sure what country you are talking about, but it ain’t Canada mtmlovertreme
Actually you are both runs, trucks have been governed for probably 15 years but it is normally 180 kmh. And yes, most aftermarket computer chips eliminate this.
*wrong not runs stupid autocorrect lol
Yes the truck has a speed limiter. The reason is because of the speed rating on the truck tires . My 07 dodge ram will cut out at just over 100 mph or just over 160.9344 kmph. his truck was at its limit. Now if there is a tunner box programed into the computer the speed limiter can be bypassed and you can drive it as fast as the air/fuel mixture will permit. Now for the tires,when i was in Germany a few years age,in the winter, you were only allowed to drive 120 mph on the autobon[freeway], because no winter tire had been made ,at that time,that had a speed rateing of over 120 mph. So if you were doing ,say 130, you automaticly got a speeding ticket for exceeding the tire rating. Fact plumbers dont lie. Cheers
morning tax
might want to check your facts, or perhaps take your vehicle (if it is newer,and a truck) to a long straight stretch and prove yourself right.
if it is an old car or truck it wont.
and not to get the safety gestapo going on me, but i know exactly what i am talking about with a 1999 ford and a 2005 dodge. and thanks frank1 for the reason.
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