13 sports cars valued at $2 million impounded after Surrey highway race selected, sports, photos, report

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Video:
http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/ ... 382#news+hour+final

News report and photos of the selected cars (and probably their drivers)
http://www.driving.ca/vancouvers ... /5340015/story.html

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Notable quotes from the newspaper article:

- More than $2 million worth of high-powered sports cars were impounded in Surrey and White Rock after a convoy of youths were seen racing along Highway 99.

- Not one of the drivers was over the age of 20

- Police in White Rock said very few of the seven drivers had a full class five licence, and one of the cars had less than 200 km on the odometer.

- A lot of these cars had N decals on them

-Lik

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Was there any evidence that they were speeding way above speed limit?
If no evidence, then it is il ...
peter236 發表於 2011-9-1 14:20

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Lik

FY, what makes you think people are picking on these young idiots b/c they are Chinese immigrants? Are you so insecure about your own ethnicity that you feel like you're victimized all the time? For all I care, I don't give a shxt if they are Chinese immigrants or not. I would have said a lot of the same thing if the idiot kids belonged to a different ethnic group. Anyone doing 200km+ on public road is stupid and a hazard to other road users.

Chobit is quite correct that high speed in itself is not necessarily a dangerous thing. But the biggest problem is, there were clearly other road users on the road at the time when these idiots were pulling their stupid stunts. The most dangerous thing with street racing is that there are other cars driving along at drastically different speeds, where drivers with vastly different levels of skills are present. If an accident occurs, it can easily get other innocent people involved. The streets and the highway also don't have tire walls and run off areas to help decelerate the car should anything happen to them. A median / barrier / lamp post does not cushion a car the same way as those safety installations.

-Lik

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Again, they are being picked on not solely because they are Chinese immigrants. More because of the  ...
BiscottiGelato 發表於 2011-9-2 09:51

I don't see the need to associate the incident with whether they are Chinese immigrants or not at all. In fact, if you read the news article again, at no point in the reporting did they even mention anything about the ethnicity of the drivers. The key points were:

1) street racing
2) high end super cars
3) young drivers
4) with N licences

Not that they were Chinese immigrant kids. They all add up to a lethal combination because:

1) street racing is dangerous and a safety hazard to the public
2) high end super cars can attain dangerous speeds very quickly, and generally speaking, the more power a car has, the more potential damage that can result in
3) young drivers tend to be more impulsive and aggressive
4) N licences, esp when coupled with the young drivers' age, generally means they have limited driving experience, skills, and road sense

-Lik