R-C-M-P in North Vancouver say a lead-footed driver with a learners licence is a lot poorer -- and less mobile -- today after making a bad choice on Friday night.
Mounties say the 19-year-old was clocked doing 199 kilometres per hour in an 80-kilometre per hour zone along the Upper Levels Highway through North Van.
In addition to his speed, the teen was driving without a supervisor and carrying too many passengers -- all contraventions of his "L" licence restriction, prompting a raft of tickets totalling almost 15-hundred dollars, and a weeklong impoundment of his car.
Police say the teen was one of two drivers racing along the highway -- but officers couldn't catch the second car -- prompting the seemingly unrepentant learner to complain when he was stopped because he said "the other driver was going faster."
