Driver, 22, charged for driving almost 60 km/h over the speed limit: Halifax police

A Halifax Regional Police car is pictured in an undated file image. (Paul DeWitt/CTV Atlantic)

A 22-year-old man has been charged with stunting after police say he was caught driving almost 60 km/h over the speed limit Monday morning.

A member of the Halifax Regional Police’s Traffic Unit saw a vehicle travelling inbound on Highway 111 at a “high rate of speed” as it approached Burnside Drive in Dartmouth, N.S.

Police say the vehicle was travelling at 139 km/h in an 80 km/h zone.

The driver, a 22-year-old man, was ticketed for stunting.

The charge is automatically laid when a vehicle is travelling more than 50 km/h over the speed limit.

He was also fined $2,422.50.

Additionally, six points were assigned to his record, he was suspended from driving for a week and his vehicle was seized.

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