Another motorist was stopped after he was clocked doing 153 km/h in a 90 km/h-zone in the Eastern Townships.

Two more Quebec drivers learned the hard way that driving at warp speed can be costly.

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Over the past week, the Sûreté du Québec fined two 35-year-old men for excessive speeding. One was fined almost $2,000 after being caught driving over the speed limit by 100 kilometres per hour.

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“We’re sending out a message that speeding costs a lot and it’s dangerous,” said Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Louis-Philippe Ruel.

The latest cases came to light after SQ officers were led on a 12-kilometre high-speed chase early Tuesday after trying to stop an 18-year-old driver going almost twice the speed limit on the Décarie Expressway. He faces a $1,330 fine with 14 demerit points.

The SQ has since added two more incidents:

All three lost their licences for a week.

Under Quebec’s Highway Safety Code, drivers caught speeding excessively face increasingly higher penalties.

For example, a second offence results in an immediate 30-day license suspension. And the vehicle is impounded for 30 days if both offences were committed in a zone where the speed limit is 60 km/h or lower.

In the case of a third offence, the person’s license is immediately suspended for 60 days if all three events were in a zone of 60-km/h or lower. The vehicle is impounded if the latest offence and either of the other two were committed in a zone where the limit is 60 km/h or less.

Ruel said he doesn’t know whether excessive speeding is a growing problem, or whether drivers hit the gas more when the weather is nicer.

The SQ publicizes some cases to remind drivers of the penalties and the dangers associated with driving at reckless speeds, he said.

“These weren’t highways,” Ruel said of the cases in Valleyfield and the Eastern Townships.

“There’s a reason why these roads have lower speed limits. There’s a possibility that cars may be joining the traffic, for example. Or there’s a curve and cars may be stopped ahead or animals may be on the road.”

Quebec defines excessive speeding as driving at a speed that exceeds the limit by:

Speeding is a leading cause of fatal accidents, and the risk of being involved in a crash increases when vehicles are going faster than the speed limit, the SQ said.

Every year, speed is a factor in accidents that cause about 115 deaths and about 420 serious injuries on Quebec roads, the force said.

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