3 Mar, 2020 @ 11:13
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WATCH: ‘Reckless’ driver in Spain ‘races’ AVE highspeed train at 220kph as police launch investigation

Speeder Train

AN investigation has been launched into a man who allegedly raced a Spanish train at 220 kph.

The Guardia Civil launched the probe after spotting a video of the incident in Northern Spain on social media.

The driver is said to have posted the footage himself, with police saying it showed him driving recklessly, putting his life and the lives of other road users at serious risk.

IDIOT: Video shows driver reaching speeds of 220kph

It was recorded with a mobile device and showed a man driving on the A2 motorway in Zaragoza next to the highspeed line, with an AVE train alongside.

Guardia Civil officers say they have now identified a 32-year-old man as the driver.

The footage showed the speedometer of his car clocking up 220 kph at kilometre 314 on the way to Barcelona.

The speed limit was 120 kph.

During the recording, the driver can be heard boasting about the speed reached in relation to that of the train and can be seen overtaking other cars at high speed.

He is now being investigated for reckless driving endangering the lives of himself and other road users, and speeding at more than 80 kph above the permitted limit.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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