Why your new car isn't so new?

[daveismissing]

April 3, 2014
by The Canadian Press

OAKVILLE, Ont.—Nine people face racing charges after police say a pack of vehicles being taken to a Ford Motor Co. plant were clocked doing twice the speed limit in Oakville, Ont.

Halton regional police say they received numerous calls about a group of vehicles travelling at high speed on Trafalgar Road in the city west of Toronto—with many callers saying the vehicles appeared to be racing.

Officers set up a speed measuring device and police say nine vehicles were spotted driving in a tight pack and clocked at speeds ranging from 120 to 127 km/h in a posted 60 km/h zone.

The vehicles were all pulled over and eight men and one woman—who range in age from 26 to 52 years old—were charged with racing a motor vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act.

Police say the new vehicles were being moved to the Ford plant in Oakville from a storage lot in nearby Milton, Ont., and the drivers were employees of a company hired by the automaker to shuttle vehicles.

All were released and are scheduled to appear in court on May 13.

[tb3]

musta been quite the group if all 9 where doing it together

[phil_long]

Agreed

[TexasT]

Was on of them joey chitwood? Did they have a ring of fire to jump the cars through? Oh well, I guess the local law enformwnt wa doing their job. The boss probably told them , get this done asap and there's a bonus in it for all of ya. Now they gotta spend the bonus on the fine and court costs.

[TWIN86GNS]

Don't forget that this is Ontario so all of those vehicle's would have been impounded since they were all going more than 50 km/h (30 mph) over the speed limit!!!!