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Originally Posted by zulutango
The driver is from Campbell River and is heading south ( away from CR) towards Courtenay (where they have more snow) to "escape a snowstorm"? Driving that Hwy at 200k plus in summer with no traffic and dry pavement is not safe...now add snow & ice on the hwy and you have a fatal looking for a place to happen. Happy to hear that they got him safely stopped and his notice of driving prohibition served ( he must have been ducking service) before he killed someone. Had 2 people already killed due to overdriving road conditions at speeds way less than 200kmh.
"Have any of you driven that highway?
It's a wide open, smooth, 4 lane highway with big shoulders on both sides, and hardly any traffic on it.The posted limits would be more appropriate at 140-150 than 110.
If there was any highway to do this speed, this would be one of best. "
As someone who worked that area, has driven it at high speed in response to emergencies, and went to the crashes there for years, I would disagree. Most of the crashes involved drivers who thought exactly like you do. Sorry but I disagree. Even taking away the speed related crashes, there are a large number of car vs deer/elk crashes there as well. At 200 k by the time you see one, you are dead.
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I'm not trying to say what the driver did wasn't wrong.
Not counting road conditions, my point was that if this driver choose to do this where no other cars were around it would be relatively saf
er than doing the same on other highways (Malahat, Hwy 1 etc), or even safer than doing 110km/h in the city (Yes I consider The Ferrari/BMW Seymour Mountain incident much more dangerous) Taking that into account, I don't feel the same instantaneous outrage as others here simply hearing the "200km/h" number.
If this guy was doing this around other traffic, or swerving in and out of traffic, then fuck him I'm glad he was caught and punished accordingly.
If this guy were to go out of control and careen off the road or hit a deer/elk and die it would be no one's fault but his own, he took his life into his own hands and I wouldn't give any sympathy to him either.