It may have been a tribute to the latest installment of the Fast & Furious saga, currently in theaters. Tuesday night, five Korean tourists were intercepted north of Clermont as they drove on the A89 motorway at over 200 km / h at the wheel of their Porsche.
When the cars appeared in their viewfinder of his ultralight laser radar, around 18:15, the gendarme had just had the time to measure each speed. 204, 205, 206 and 207 km / h ... "On this axis, the speed is limited to 130 km / h", recalls the captain Frédéric Hardouin, second in command of the squadron of road safety of Puy-de-Dôme.
"They endanger all users of this axis"
Immediately, the gendarmes chased them in their Mégane RS and quickly intercepted the speeders. "We were facing Korean tourists, on holiday in the area, who had rented these five Porsches," he continues. "They were fun while driving fast". They had flown from Bordeaux to join the town of Vichy, in the Allier.
"The five drivers all had immediate driver's license withdrawals and each driver had to pay 750 euros for consignment.It is quite intolerable to have this kind of behavior.In addition to putting their lives in danger, they also put in danger all the passengers on board the vehicle and all the users who circulate on this axis ", insists Frédéric Hardouin. The rental Porsche were not confiscated, it is their passengers who took the wheel. The prosecution will ask the ban to circulate in France for these tourists.