American driver busted going 262 km/h on the Coquihalla Highway

A 50-year-old Washington State man is scheduled to appear in a B.C. court next month after being busted going over 250 km/h on the Coquihalla Highway this past weekend.

The RCMP Highway Patrol was conducting speed checks on the Coquihalla Highway about 22 km south of Merritt on May 7.

“The officer observed a red Alfa Romeo Giulia rapidly overtaking two vehicles and established that the vehicle was traveling at a speed of 262 km/h in the posted 120 km/h zone,” an RCMP news release says. “The driver was stopped and the vehicle that he was driving was promptly impounded.”

The news release did not say how long the driver has lost his car for.

“It isn’t worth someone’s life, or injury to anybody just to get to your destination sooner,” the release says.

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