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Let me continue my rant against knee-jerk reactionary policies. If an area has a large street racing or speeding problem, BY ALL MEANS - solve the problem. But it sounds to me like this politician–excuse me, police commisioner– just likes getting his name in the paper and/or is knee-jerking to some kind of pressure.

I’m not condoning speeding, racing, or otherwise breaking laws or endangering the public. The people who caused this accident, and another which a different article referenced of a truck going down a ravine or something, should by all means be punished accordingly. But threatening to crush any car which looks like a street racer or saying if you speed by 30mph that you’re automatically street racing is just ludicrous.

Anyone driving 50 km/h (roughly 30 mph) over the speed limit should be deemed a street racer and have his or her car seized, Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino said Monday. Last week, we told told you how Ontario’s Attorney General said police in the Canadian province have the right to seize and crush any car modified for street racing.

The fine for road racing rose ten times in May to a whopping $10,000. The move came days after a taxi driver was killed in Toronto when a Mercedes struck his cab while racing another luxury car.

“I’m advocating that if you speed 50 kilometres over the speed limit, you’re racing,” Fantino said, according to the Canadian Press.

“And then we should apply the racing laws to that and seize the vehicles and do whatever else is necessary. We have to stop all this.”

Source: Canada: 30 mph over speed limit is “street racing”