{"id":4818,"date":"2025-07-04T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7275146"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:54:00","slug":"impounded-ferrari-more-than-doubled-bc-highway-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/4818\/impounded-ferrari-more-than-doubled-bc-highway-speed-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Impounded Ferrari more than doubled BC highway speed limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers with the BC Highway Patrol took a Ferrari off the road after it more than doubled the speed limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian supercar was clocked going 180 km\/h along Highway 99, which was 100 km\/h over the posted limit, according to BC Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the driver was pulled over by an officer on a motorcycle, they were handed a $483 ticket and they&#8217;ll be forced to pay the towing and impound fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That money could have bought Gucci sunglasses or a lot of cappuccino,&#8221; a highway patrol July 4 social media post read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The car appears to be a Ferrari 458, which can reach top speeds exceeding 300 km\/h, according to the company website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear where the vehicle was caught by police, but the route&#8217;s 80 km\/h zones are largely in the Sea to Sky corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Italian supercar, meet BC Highway Patrol. 180 km\/h in an 80 zone= a tow from Hwy #99 (you pay) to the impound lot (you pay) + a $483 fine. That money could have bought Gucci sunglasses. Or a lot of cappuccino <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i1z0IwAdOy\">pic.twitter.com\/i1z0IwAdOy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BC Highway Patrol (@BCHwyPatrol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCHwyPatrol\/status\/1940814462132670888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That money could have bought Gucci sunglasses or a lot of cappuccino.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":null,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1275,1285,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc","category-featured","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-hd-mediaitemid109770-8524.jpg","post_modified":"2025-07-04T09:54:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:54:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}