{"id":97001,"date":"2025-08-25T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97001\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:31:08","slug":"nearly-1k-in-fines-for-driver-who-claimed-he-was-speeding-because-he-was-low-on-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97001\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly $1K in fines for driver who claimed he was speeding because he was low on gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in the B.C. Interior say they recently stopped a man who was going 36 km\/h above the speed limit who\u00a0claimed he was speeding because he was nearly out of gas.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0statement\u00a0(new window)<\/a>\u00a0from RCMP\u00a0B.C. Highway Patrol, police say they stopped a grey, eight-seater mini van\u00a0only to\u00a0find nine people inside. It happened near Merritt on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n

Police say the 36-year-old Edmonton man claimed he was travelling at 136 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone due to a fuel shortage.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police say the grey minivan had to be refueled with a jerry can after running out of gas during the police stop. (B.C. Highway Patrol)<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0(B.C. Highway Patrol)<\/p>\n

That he was low on gas would appear true, with police reporting that sure enough, the van ran out of gas at roadside.<\/p>\n

We explained to the driver that speeding dramatically worsens your fuel economy, said Cpl. Michael McLaughlin in the\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n

In addition to the speeding, the driver was fined for having a three-year-old in a car seat that didn’t have functioning\u00a0 buckles.<\/p>\n

Only two out of nine people in the vehicle were wearing seatbelts, according to police, some of whom were issued tickets.<\/p>\n

In total, police said the fines totalled $973, and the driver had to pay for a taxi to bring fuel to the van and transport the extra passenger.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons to slow down. You will very likely avoid police attention, and you will be much safer, McLaughlin said in the statement.<\/p>\n

If you get into a collision at high speed, every person who is not wearing a seatbelt will die. You do not want that on your conscience.<\/p>\n

CBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in the B.C. Interior say they recently stopped a man who was going 36 km\/h above the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-97001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97001","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=97001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}