Gardaí investigate Bebo video of 160km/h ‘boy racers’

GARDAÍ are investigating two internet videos showing a driver racing at 160km an hour under the River Lee and along a dual carriageway in Cork.

One of the mobile phone recordings placed on the Bebo website include an image taken by the passenger showing the car’s speedometer touch 160 kilometres per hour (100mph) during a night-time race with another motorist on a road near the city.

In the other video, the driver races through the 600-metre Jack Lynch Tunnel on the outskirts of Cork during the day in just 14 seconds. This puts his average speed in the tunnel at 157km per hour — almost twice the 80km/h speed limit — but means the car probably topped this significantly before slowing as it approached speed cameras which face motorists exiting the tunnel.