Some cars are cop-magnets and certain types of motorists are always on the radar, like a young guy in a blue Subaru WRX
To help catch speed-demons, the provincial government in 2021 introduced the Moving Ontarians More Safely act, colloquially called MOMS act. Anyone caught stunt driving or excessive speeding got their car impounded (14 days) a license suspension (30 days) and up to a $10,000 fine.
So it’s kind of ironic that a Scarborough mom is now being charged under the MOMS act for for driving nearly 90 km/h over the limit!
Last Tuesday an Innisfil Police officer’s radar pegged the 36-yer-old woman’s vehicle at 148 km/h in a posted 60 km/h zone. This all happened on Innisfil Beach Road just north of Innisfil Indy Karting on Gilford Rd, where she should have gone to feed her need for speed!
The MOMS act defines street racing as 40 km/h over (on roads with less than 80 km/h maximum) or 50 km/h over (on highways with more than 80 km/h maximum). But no mater how it’s defined at 148 km/h, this lady broke every speed limit in the country!
She was was charged with stunt driving and speeding and her Toyota Corolla was towed roadside to an impound yard.
Sounds like a younger version of the little old lady from Pasasena.
A mom busted by the MOMS Act. Hilarious and iconic.
Stories like this just amaze me. That anyone would drive this fast on a road is just incomprehensible. And how delicious is the irony that that mom got snagged under the MOMS act. And things sound SO much worse in metric. Even so, 92 in imperial is still crazy fast. I guess you’d know about that radar thing. (insert smiley face with halo here).
It is important to recognize that bad drivers come from all age groups and genders. It’s too easy to blame only young men for poor driving standards (although they have been known to drive through red lights). To improve road safety, we need tougher licensing and real accountability for breaking rules of the road… not just photo radar ticket in the mail.
So true. Driving is like a lot of other things. You learn to do it when you’re young. Hopefully you get better at it as you go. Later in life, what with vision problems and especially slowed reaction times, the safety factor/capability diminishes. Thanks for acknowledging that the occasional young driver does run red lights and breaks someone else’s car.
Young men become very stupid behind the wheel. They think revving the engine and speeding on public streets eill get them the girl. All it does is wreck someone’s car and risk injuries.
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Which is why I spend so much time at the race track with my kids.
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However, I think it overly simllifies the problems on public roads by saying jts just 17 year old boys in Toyota GR Corollas. Many people well past their teenaged years drive like rules dont apply to them too.
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Tougher licensing requirement (not everybody deserves to drive) and stiff penalties for stupidity is key.
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And if you have the need for speed, take it to the track.
I feel like the driving testing in our country needs to be adjusted. I don’t think much has changed in the last 80 years (?) when it comes to driving requirements. Like, because people are living so much longer, it makes sense to have seniors test more often. Maybe catch some people before their family has to take away the keys. It”s a pretty interesting subject actually.
Ontario has some of the most lax licensing (despite our BS graduated licensing system) and its well knows that driving schools and officials can just be paid off.
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Some of the cars (and especially SUVs) that I see on the road today scare the living daylights out of me. Big, heavy vehicles with 400+ HP and soft bouncy springs. The driver thinks they’re invincible, but on out bumpy downtown highway, it looks like these vehicles are at the edge of disaster.
Driving schools and officials can be paid off? Good grief. I’m not sure how much HP these behemoth trucks are sporting but they are a little intimidating to my little car.
Two things I want to mention.
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I was driving home after midnight in my 1992 Subaru SVX. It’s very low to the ground, sporty, but rides stiff over the bumps. I had to take it easy on the downtown highway. I watched in horror as one of those over-powered BMW SUVs (like an X5 or something) sped past me. I was at 100 km/h just gritting my teeth at the potholes, while that BMW flew past me at 140 km/h or more. His SUV was just bouncing around the lane as he hit the same pot holes, and I just throught he was going to wreck. Too much power and speed, way too much weight up high, that looked nearly impossible to control. Many of these new SUVs give a sense of invincibility that encourages this type of driving.
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And while Toronto is a relatively peaceful city, it seems quite corrupt. The CBC did an expose on truck licensing and the hidden cameras showed just how quickly a person with little training can be on the road driving a transport truck. The same problem exists in local driving schools too..
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CBC Video: https://youtu.be/vVSs8dSbS-Y?si=fl5kVK6RQHAHCOFy
That was a very interesting video. So truck training schools are under the aegis of the ministry of colleges and universities. Seems like a mis-classification.
It terrifies me to think that someone with little training could get behind the wheel of a 6
42,000 lb truck.
Cincinnati has two major N/S highways. The one I *don’t* drive as often is a major road from northern Michigan to Florida. I very much dislike driving by trucks on that highway because the road is older and the lanes are more narrow. I keep my eyes wide open when there are semis in the vicinity.