{"id":792736,"date":"2026-07-10T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:20:10","slug":"mississauga-driver-charged-with-stunt-driving-after-alleged-156-km-h-on-highway-401-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792736\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga driver charged with stunt driving after alleged 156 km\/h on Highway 401 in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/opp-2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 22 year old Mississauga man is facing a stunt driving charge after Northumberland OPP say he was caught travelling at 156 kilometres an hour on Highway 401 in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Police say an officer conducting traffic enforcement on the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 observed the vehicle speeding at about 9:30 p.m. on July 8. After stopping the vehicle, officers charged the driver under Ontario\u2019s Highway Traffic Act with performing a stunt through excessive speed.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Ontario\u2019s stunt driving legislation, police suspended the driver\u2019s licence for 30 days and impounded the vehicle for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Northumberland OPP is using the incident to remind motorists that excessive speed remains one of the leading contributors to serious and fatal collisions on Ontario roads.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ontario law, drivers can face stunt driving charges for travelling 50 kilometres an hour or more above the speed limit on roads posted at 80 km\/h or higher, 40 kilometres an hour or more over the limit where the posted speed is below 80 km\/h, or driving at 150 km\/h or more regardless of the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>The charge has not been proven in court. Police continue to encourage drivers to obey posted speed limits and help keep Ontario\u2019s roads safe.<\/p>\n<p>(Written by: Branden Rushton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22 year old Mississauga man is facing a stunt driving charge after Northumberland OPP say he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-792736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}