29-year-old man from Mississauga charged with stunt driving

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On Monday, May 10, 2010, at 2:05 a.m., police stopped a vehicle for speeding.

It is alleged that:

– a BMW and a Mercedes were travelling westbound on the Gardiner Expressway, near Kipling Avenue, when they were seen by police,

– the police officer activated a speed measuring device and received a reading of 189 km/h on the BMW,

– the driver of the BMW was stopped and investigated.

A 29-year-old man, of Mississauga, has been charged with:

1) Stunt Driving – Drive at rate of speed – 50 km/h or more over the speed limit,
2) Speeding 189 km/h in a posted 100 km/h zone.

The driver of the Mercedes fled, but not before a speed of 224 km/h was registered on the speed-measuring device.

The driver of the Mercedes is being asked to surrender to police.

Arrangements can be made by calling 416-808-1900 or attending any Toronto police station.

The incident was caught on the police cruiser’s in-car camera, but due to its evidentiary nature, it will not be made available to the media.

It is worthwhile to note that:

Travelling at 189 km/h, you are moving at 52.54 meters per second. That is covering the length of a football field in less than two seconds.

To stop your vehicle from that speed in an emergency would require a distance of 187.5 meters to stop or 7.11 seconds.

That stopping distance would also be greater when adding the time it would take a driver to recognize the need to stop and to apply the brakes.

“At those kinds of speed, if a component malfunction occurred on the vehicle such as steering, brakes or tires and a crash occurred, the likelihood of surviving an impact is minimal at best,” said Sergeant Steve O’Donovan, a Collision Reconstructionist from Traffic Services.

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