While driving a Ferrari, an English driver flew at a speed of 160 km/h on a secondary road.

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One can imagine the surprise of motorists driving along the motorway when they see a Ferrari overtake them not in the left lane but on the department road that runs along the A6. On board, the driver – an Englishman – presses the accelerator until the speedometer reaches 158 km/h. The gendarmes of the Villefranche-sur-Saône motorway brigade found it on Wednesday 28 June on the D306 near Lucenay and finally kept the 150 km/h speed limit to 90 km/h on this axis.

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head to the pound

At 60 km/h, underline the gendarmes patrolling the area. The main straights of the departmental road connecting the north of the borough to the south of Beaujolais are actually a section that allows some motorists and bikers to go at crazy speeds at times. that day, “It will take a few minutesTo the gendarmes who are about to crash into this Ferrari at high speed.

This significantly higher speed resulted in the immediate suspension of its driver’s license. The car, for its part, set off on the platform of a truck from the pound in the direction of Villefranche-sur-Seine. The police court in Calatois will decide on possible confiscation in September.