A 13-year-old is going through a number of expenses after crashing a Lamborghini on a West Vancouver freeway, native police say.
The West Vancouver Police Division mentioned officers have been known as a few single-vehicle collision on the Trans-Canada Freeway at about 11 p.m. final Monday. No person was within the Lamborghini Huracan – which was deserted in a ditch – when police arrived.
Police mentioned they performed an “exhaustive search” to seek out who was within the car and, with the co-operation of the car proprietor, discovered and interviewed two individuals who have been within the automobile.
It turned out, police mentioned, a 13-year-old was driving on the time of the crash.
Sgt. Chris Bigland instructed CTV Information the Lamborghini was within the means of being offered, and that the proprietor seems to have entrusted the keys to {the teenager}.
“Our investigators imagine that the registered proprietor was not conscious of the true age of the driving force, nor that they weren’t licensed to drive in British Columbia,” Bigland added.
The youth then took a pal for a experience earlier than dropping management of the car throughout a interval of darkish and wet circumstances on the roads, based on police.
The incident seems to replicate “poor judgment throughout,” Bigland mentioned, including that it is lucky nobody was injured.
Police mentioned injury to the car was so extreme it needed to be written off. A photograph shared by the WVPD exhibits the Lamborghini had crashed by means of a fence, fully damaging the front-end.
The teenage driver was charged below the Motor Car Act with dashing, driving with out due care, failing to stay on the scene of a collision and driving with out a licence.
With information from CTV Information Vancouver’s Kevin Charach
