RCMP nabbed a driver doing 205 km/h on Highway 2 north of Airdrie last week.

The incident happened on September 15. A member of the Sheriff Highway Patrol was conducting routine traffic enforcement when the officer witnessed a Toyota Scion that appeared to be speeding in the left hand lane. According to RCMP, radar clocked the vehicle’s speed at 205 km/h as it passed a semi-truck and trailer doing 100 km/h in the right-hand lane.

Officers pulled over the vehicle. The driver, a young man from British Columbia, was given a ticket for exceeding the speed limit by 95 km/h and handed a mandatory court date. 

“Excessive speed endangers others on the road with you, including your passengers and the occupants of other vehicles,” said Alberta Sheriffs in a statement put out on social media.

“According to Alberta Transportation data from 2017, more than 25 per cent of fatal collisions involved a motorist who was driving at an unsafe speed – either exceeding the posted speed limit, or going too fast for the road conditions.”

Sheriffs also point out that if a driver is caught exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 50 km/h the maximum penalty upon conviction is a $2,000 fine or six months in jail, or both. A conviction also carries six demerit points and the court also has the ability to suspend the individual’s licence.

 

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