B.C. motorcyclist paying $1.7K in fines after witness video leads police to the rider

A 23-year-old in B.C. is paying over a thousand dollars in fines after his motorcycle stunts were captured on a high-definition dashcam, leading police straight to him days later. The post B.C. motorcyclist paying $1.7K in fines after witness video leads police to the rider appeared first on CHEK .

A 23-year-old in B.C. is paying over a thousand dollars in fines after his motorcycle stunts were captured on a high-definition dashcam, leading police straight to him days later. BC Highway Patrol say that on July 3, a motorcyclist from Surrey was seen on Highway 1 near 167th Street “weaving in traffic and travelling at excessive speed.” The motorcyclist passed a witness whose vehicle had an HD camera installed.

“The motorcycle, the motorcycle rider, and the licence plate were clearly visible on the witnesses’ high-definition dash camera. Four days after the incident, BC Highway Patrol tracked down the motorcycle’s owner,” states RCMP in a release. Watch the video below by BC Highway Patrol: BC Highway Patrol ramps up enforcement against dangerous drivers BC Highway Patrol Cpl.

Michael McLaughlin says the public messaging push on excessive speeding tickets and impounds is part of its multi-year enforcement efforts. “It’s not hard to imagine how the speed and unsafe driving behaviour in this video could have easily led to the motorcyclist’s death,” says McLaughlin. Recent messaging has focused on motorcyclists, based on the latest reports and the time of year.

But McLaughlin tells CHEK there’s a culture of speed that spans all highway vehicles. READ RECENT: ‘Egregious speed’: Motorcycle rider with L licence gets bike impounded after travelling 177km/h on B.C. highway Impaired B.C. driver stopped for excessive speeding with children in car: RCMP “There is a cultural problem with all types of vehicles excessively speeding on the Sea to Sky highway, and motorcycles are part of that problem.

Police can’t change the culture on our own; we need the public to choose to drive the speed limit instead of continuing the culture of speeding on Highway #99,” he says. The culture of speeding on the Island The Island is not immune to the culture of speeding. Recently a driver with an L license was caught travelling double the speed limit in Oak Bay, resulting in tickets and vehicle impoundment.

In June, Comox Valley RCMP urged the public to slow down after a series of high-speed incidents led to serious injuries, including injuries to a young boy, as well as a fatal crash. Earlier this spring, a driver in Oak Bay was stopped for driving 90km/h in a 40 zone . This winter, two drivers in Metchosin were fined for driving nearly triple the speed limit .

Then last fall, a driver in Saanich was stopped for travelling 121km/h in a 50km/h zone . “We’re not doing it for fun, we’re literally trying to save lives,” McLaughlin says in an email to CHEK. In the recent case of the 23-year-old motorcyclist from Surrey, he was issued $1,769 in tickets including: Drive without consideration, section 144(1)(b) of the BC Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) for a fine of $196, Excessive speed (more than 40 km/h over the limit), section 148(1) of the BC MVA ($483), Unsafe lane change, section 151(a) of the BC MVA ($109 x 5), Lane change without signal, section 151(c) of the BC MVA ($109 x 4), Fail in duty to supply information, section 84(2) of the BC MVA ($109).

“We understand how much bad driving not only makes our highways unacceptably unsafe, it also annoys safe drivers,” says McLaughlin. “We’re enforcing these laws to improve people’s behaviour by delivering real consequences.” The post B.C. motorcyclist paying $1.7K in fines after witness video leads police to the rider appeared first on CHEK .