Motorcyclist charged following viral video acquitted
Posted October 24, 2013 7:17 pm.
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VICTORIA (NEWS1130) – Remember that viral video of the motorcyclist doing nearly 300 kilometres an hour on the Trans Canada Highway near Victoria?
The video -was posted in 2012 and has had more than 1.7 million hits and shows a motorcycle weaving through traffic.
Veteran traffic officers were shocked and say it was lucky no one was killed.
Twenty-six-year-old Randy Scott was charged with dangerous driving but the charge was dismissed.
The Crown says the court was not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that they had proven Scott was the one operating the blue Yamaha at the time the video was recorded.
The motorcycle was auctioned off for almost five thousand dollars by BC’s Civil Forfeiture Office, which sells off property used for unlawful activity.
