DO you think he will win his fight
http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1180314OPP say Mark Volante didn’t set a record for the fastest driver ever on Highway 401 — but he came close.
On Sunday afternoon, the OPP Aircraft Enforcement Program was monitoring aggressive drivers on Highway 401, west of Port Hope.
Spotter in the aircraft, Sgt. Norm Shaw of the Highway Safety Division, noticed a motorcycle traveling at a very excessive speed.
"It simply, literally appeared like a streak."
Police pulled the vehicle over and charged the driver under the Stunt Racing law for traveling at 243 kph.
"It was rapidly passing everything it came upon," said Sgt. Shaw.
Although there have been other vehicles traveling faster, Sgt. Shaw stated, it was "one of the highest clocked, stopped and processed" vehicles police had ever scene.
Mark Volante, 28, was coming from his home in Toronto to a friend's barbeque in Picton riding his 2007 600-cc motorcycle.
Mr. Volante spoke to Northumberland Publishers while waiting for his fiancée to pick him up at Tim Horton’s in Port Hope.
Mr. Volante sat outside with his motorcycle helmet and gloves. He was holding his ticket in one hand, using a Blackberry in the other.
"I was going with the speed limit," Mr. Volante adamantly admits. "I don’t think I was going 150 kph because I wasn’t even passing a lot of cars."
He admits he’s got a speeding ticket previously, but none in the last three years.
Mr. Volante says he drives cautiously because he’s "scared" of his motorcycle he bought in April.
After being his Sunday speeding ticket, Mr. Volante said he was "shocked."
"Who wouldn’t be pissed off? " he asks. "It’s my word against the officer."
He said he plans fighting the ticket.
"To decide right on the spot, to be judge, jury and executioner, I think that’s way too much power,"
OPP Commiss Mr. Volante says.
OPP Commisioner Julian Fantino described a motorcycle traveling at that speed would be a "rocket."
"I don’t know what his take on the world, " Com. Fantino says. "It borders on people wanting to commit suicide."
Commissioner Fantino said since Friday there have been 113 people charged with traveling over 50 kph above the posted speed limit.
"These people push it to the limit and people think their invincible and their not."
Mr. Volante’s motorcycle was impounded for seven days. He said the tow truck driver told him it would cost $275 for the tow, and $50 a day for the impound fee. When told the minimum fine is $2,000, Mr. Volante commented, "that’s a nice bite in the ass."
"It’s a nice sunny day and you can’t go out there and ride you’re bike."