Motorist banned for racing at 190km/h

A YOUNG motorist who was seen racing a Honda Civic with another unidentified car on a dual-carriageway at 190 kilometres per hour has been banned from driving for a year.

Motorist banned for racing at 190km/h

The incident was seen on the Cork/Mallow road and on to the dual-carriageway at Commons Road on the outskirts of Cork city at about midnight on June 12.

Judge Con O’Leary said at Cork District Court that he had an old-fashioned way of looking at speed and asked how fast the car was travelling in miles per hour. Inspector Eddie Golden said it was approximately 120 miles per hour.

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