19-year-old races with his parents' Mercedes: "Worst speed limit I've ever heard of"

A teenage boy was amazed by the police on a jaunt with his parents' Mercedes: Such a blatant violation of speed does not occur very often.

• A 19-year-old in Canada was caught turfing.
• The police spoke of the "worst speed limit" that they had ever heard of.
• The teenager now faces double trouble.

Toronto - Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer has just adapted the fine catalog for Germany. Now there are significantly higher and sometimes very rigorous road traffic penalties . However, in the case of a frenzy from Canada, it almost doesn't matter whether the punishments for speeding have been tightened: If he had violated the pace, the driving license would have been gone in every country. And the frenzy also had drastic consequences for the driver in Canada .

Video: New catalog of fines since April 2020

19-year-old racer traveling at a crazy pace - the police can only be amazed

The Canadian police most likely could hardly believe their eyes when they checked the speed of a driver on a highway in the state of Ontario : the display showed 308 km / h . "This is the worst speed violation I've ever heard of," said police officer Kerry Schmidt in a video released on Twitter on Sunday. 

However, only 100 kilometers per hour would have been permitted on the road southwest of Toronto. The racing car was a full 208 km / h above the mark.

308 km / h on the #QEW. Two 19 year kids going for a “drive” with dads car. Driver charged with #StreetRacing https://t.co/iDw5r7nEB9

Raser borrowed Mercedes from his parents - he's now confiscated

This feat was accomplished by a 19 year old. He was traveling with a friend on Saturday as a passenger, whom he also put at risk of life with his action. 

The 19-year-old now faces double trouble: once the violation cost him the driver's license , which the police immediately seized. However, it wasn't his own car that he used to take his jaunt: he was traveling in his parents' Mercedes . Like the driver's license, the police also confiscated the car - but only for a week from the parents' perspective.

"I am sure that it will be difficult for him to explain why Papa's car is no longer in the garage on Mother's Day," Schmidt commented on the sentence.

After an illegal car race at 180 km / h in downtown Munich *, judges now judged the sentence.

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