These days, lawbreakers aren’t simply handed a punishment in court. If the violation is particularly irksome to the officers involved, the alleged criminal is also put on blast in whatever social media outlet is readily available. Think of it as adding digital insult to legal injury. The latest example of this comes to us from the California Highway Patrol, which recently posted a shot of the rear end of a Corvette C7 that was apparently caught going 93 mph in a construction zone.
The post was recently made to the CHP – Oroville Facebook page. “This vehicle was at 93 mph in the 55 mph zone south of the construction workers on SR-70,” the post caption states.
“But officer, I have a Corvette, ‘I can’t drive… 55!’” the post reads, quoting Sammy Hagar’s iconic single from his 1984 release VOA.
Oroville is located in Northern California and is characterized by plenty of long, straight, flat highways – exactly the kind of place you might expect a Corvette C7 to open it up a bit. Unfortunately for this driver, his lead foot is gonna cost him a pretty penny.
At 38 mph over the speed limit in a construction zone, the Corvette C7 driver will be facing down a $648 penalty and one point on his license. Then of course there’s the inevitable insurance premium hike as well. For that kind of money, the driver could have paid for a high-performance racing school or track day event. Just sayin’.
Granted, the Corvette C7 isn’t the sort of automobile you’d expect to find dawdling along in the left lane. By the look of the blurry social media post, the C7 in question is a Grand Sport model, which means it produces 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque thanks to a naturally aspirated 6.2L LT1 V8 engine. Still, that’s no excuse to be driving nearly 40 mph over the limit.
Source: California Highway Patrol via Facebook
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In BC that same offence would cost you a total between $1900-2500+:
– $483 fine for excessive speeding
– car impounded for 7 days
– $210 minimum charge for towing & storage
– 3 penalty points on your license ($210 premium @ 4 pts., to start)
– $1152 Driver Risk Premium charge ($384/yr. x 3 years, added to basic insurance)
– possible additional >$253 fine & 3 points for speeding in a construction zone (would need to confirm if the fines are stackable; 6 pts. on your license costs $360 to clear)
Spoiled rich kids in Vancouver are constantly getting pulled over in their exotics for these kinds of exploits, and often still with their ‘novice driver’ (intermediate step between Learner & full license) designation.
So now we know why Hollywood is full of Canadians!
Most of the rest of Canada knows that BC stands for ‘Bring Cash’…lol. Regular gas around Vancouver is ~$1.37/L or $5.15 per US gal. (add up to $1.20 per gal. for premium) Yes, that’s in CAD, but even in USD that’s $3.84 per gal. 🙂
I thought Hollywood was moving all of their union jobs to Canada. Of course they do have a shitty union with an average unemployment rate of 99%.
“Was I really speeding? I recently fell off ladder, landed on my head and must be concussed”… 😉
That’s nothing! In 2018, a Chinese male 22 years of age was caught in a Nissan GTR at 2:30am doing 235 kph (146 mph) in a 50 km (30 mph) zone in Markham Ontario in a highly urbanized area.
Car was impounded, towed, driver arrested….
I drive on that patch of road every day. That behaviour is completely insane.
good reason why not to go there on vacation. one of the US states did that and after AAA travel told people to avoid that state on vacation they dropped it
He was likely slowing down….
I got a ticket for 129 in a 70 on the Interstate in my GTO with the 6.0 engine. I was doing 145 and slammed on the brakes immediately upon having my radar detector go off. Thankfully in Louisiana if you know someone or you know someone that knows someone you can make that ticket “disappear”. I knew the right guy! I traded that car in on my first of 3 vettes, a 2006 Z51 convertible with a 6 speed.