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Aston Martin Driver Doing 182mph Captured By Facebook Videos
video may not last - other have been removed by youtube
Belgian police tracked down this speeder after he posted a video online of a 182mph joyride in a $257,000 Aston Martin. Thanks to the car's rarity, police easily identified his license plate from other Facebook videos. Now he faces losing his license and the car.
The Dutch-speaking driver, whose face was never seen, was heard describing his Aston Martin as a "Carbon Black Edition" - a hand-painted special model of which only three have been sold in Belgium.
Those gleaming, proud numbers on the speedometer could cost him not just his license and $4,774 in fines, but also his car, valued at around $257,000. The police were able to identify the driver's license plate number by checking through other videos of the special edition Aston Martin V12 Vantage Carbon Black the speeder had posted on Facebook. It's as if the damning evidence was just being streamed straight from the passenger seat to police computers.
These days, it's not just public roads that are too small for supercars; the whole internet is getting too small for their speed. He might have enjoyed 15 anonymous minutes of fame and then faded away like any other viral street racer, were it not for his idiocy in posting other videos of himself online.
The spokesman also said police were able to identify the speeding Aston Martin's licence plate through other videos that other drivers on the highway posted of the vehicle.
The driver could be prosecuted just on the basis of the video content.
He could be hit with a 2,750 euro ($4774) fine, while losing both his drivers' licence and his vehicle, worth an estimated 190,000 euros ($257,000 US dollars), according to Belgian media.
video may not last - other have been removed by youtube
Belgian police tracked down this speeder after he posted a video online of a 182mph joyride in a $257,000 Aston Martin. Thanks to the car's rarity, police easily identified his license plate from other Facebook videos. Now he faces losing his license and the car.
The Dutch-speaking driver, whose face was never seen, was heard describing his Aston Martin as a "Carbon Black Edition" - a hand-painted special model of which only three have been sold in Belgium.
Those gleaming, proud numbers on the speedometer could cost him not just his license and $4,774 in fines, but also his car, valued at around $257,000. The police were able to identify the driver's license plate number by checking through other videos of the special edition Aston Martin V12 Vantage Carbon Black the speeder had posted on Facebook. It's as if the damning evidence was just being streamed straight from the passenger seat to police computers.
These days, it's not just public roads that are too small for supercars; the whole internet is getting too small for their speed. He might have enjoyed 15 anonymous minutes of fame and then faded away like any other viral street racer, were it not for his idiocy in posting other videos of himself online.
The spokesman also said police were able to identify the speeding Aston Martin's licence plate through other videos that other drivers on the highway posted of the vehicle.
The driver could be prosecuted just on the basis of the video content.
He could be hit with a 2,750 euro ($4774) fine, while losing both his drivers' licence and his vehicle, worth an estimated 190,000 euros ($257,000 US dollars), according to Belgian media.