LINDSAY DRIVER, 16, CHARGED WITH DOUBLING SPEED

CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — Another new driver has been charged with doubling the speed limit yesterday.

Provincial police with the City of Kawartha Lakes OPP detachment were conducting traffic enforcement March 9 on Highway 35, near Mount Horeb Road, when a vehicle was observed travelling at an excessive rate of speed.

The officer stopped the vehicle, which reached a speed of 160km/h in an 80km/h zone.

The driver, a 16-year-old Lindsay resident, was subsequently charged with Race a motor vehicle — excessive speed, contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.

The teen’s driver’s licence was automatically suspended for seven days and the vehicle was towed from the scene to be impounded for seven days.

He is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Lindsay on May 5.

The charge follows a number of speed-related case investigations in Orillia the past week, including one where a 17-year-old was charged with doing 200 km/h in a posted 90 km/h zone. See that story here.