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22-year-old Ferrari driver fined for earlier high-speed bridge run

Wang had his Ferrari impounded after police clocked him going 210 kilometers per hour on the Lions Gate Bridge last July.

 West Vancouver Police impounded this Ferrari in July after the driver was caught speeding excessively on the Lions Gate Bridge. photo supplied West Vancouver PoliceWang had his Ferrari impounded after police clocked him going 210 kilometers per hour on the Lions Gate Bridge last July. photo West Vancouver Police

A 22-year-old West Vancouver man who received public attention this summer after being clocked by police going 210 kilometres an hour over the Lions Gate Bridge has been handed a $483 ticket for a similar incident that happened in the same location earlier last year.

Yihao Wang did not show up to North Vancouver traffic court on Thursday to dispute a ticket for excessive speeding, so the presiding justice deemed him guilty of the ticketed offence.

According to court documents, Wang was clocked by a West Vancouver police officer driving 126 km/h over the Lions Gate Bridge in his Mercedes CLS66 just before 1:30 a.m. on April 8, 2017.

Wang, who lives in the British Properties, still faces a charge of excessive speeding for the incident that happened in the early hours of July 4, when the same police officer caught him making another allegedly high-speed run across the Lions Gate – this time in a Ferrari going over 200 km/h.

Shortly after the incident, the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles extended the impound time of the white 2015 Ferrari 458 to 60 days from the initial seven-day impound.

The superintendent also slapped a 16-month driving ban on Wang.

Wang is disputing the ticket and a one-day trial has been set for April on that case.

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