Driver clocked doing more than 60 kms over posted limit

OPP NEWS RELEASE ***************************** Alberta driver charged with stunt driving CHAPLEAU - On August 31, 2012 at 12:45 p.m.

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Alberta driver charged with stunt driving

CHAPLEAU - On August 31, 2012 at 12:45 p.m. the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Chapleau Detachment were conducting radar patrol on Highway 101 in Caouette Township.

A 2011 Lincoln MKX was recorded driving in excess of 60 kilometres per hour [over] the posted 80 kilometres per hour speed limit and it was observed passing other motor vehicles unsafely.

The vehicle was subsequently stopped and the driver, 53-year-old Dairong Deng of Calgary, Alberta was charged under section 172(1) of the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario.

The accused driver’s license was seized and the vehicle was impounded for the mandatory seven days.

The accused is scheduled to appear in Provincial Offences Court in Chapleau on November 7, 2012.

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