14 DAY TRIAL // An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burnley. According to The Daily Mail, the teenager was driving a Toyota MR 2 sports car that was actually belonging to his father. It seems like the boy was identified by an off duty police officer who managed to note his registration number and confirmed that the YouTube speedster is actually the boy he saw on the motorway.
"The fact that you filmed this indicated your actions were deliberate and calculated. Then you respectively bragged about what you had done by showing film material to others and it ended up on the Internet. The distribution of such clips is thoroughly irresponsible for it encourages others to do likewise. I am afraid I regard this aspect of the case to be a seriously aggravating feature," Judge Anthony Russell said according to the Daily Mail.
In the past there were several similar cases concerning speedsters and YouTube but most of them were abandoned due to the lack of information. For example, a UK resident filmed himself while he was driving with a huge speed for a city and published the video on YouTube.
After several weeks of availability, the authorities managed to identify the driver and sent him to the judge. However, it was quite difficult to accuse him of speeding since the fines must be sent after a maximum of 15-day period since the law infringement was reported. As there was no sign of the date appearing in the clips, the man remained unpunished and he is probably speeding again on the UK roads. Let's hope not...