Thirteen Hong Kongers have been sentenced in Shenzhen for a street race last year that reached speeds up to 275 kilometers per hour, according to media reports.
New Guangdong reported that surveillance footage captured the drivers travelling at approximately 200 kilometers per hour in rush hour traffic.
Authorities arrested the drivers in the days following the race as they tried to return to Hong Kong, according to the South China Morning Post
The drivers, aged 38 to 62, were handed jail sentences ranging from one to four months, suspended for six months, for dangerous driving. The Bao’an district People’s Court also issued them fines ranging from RMB20,000-40,000.
The drivers and the cars, including Ferraris and Lamborghinis, were sent back to Hong Kong on Thursday and each driver was slapped with a two-year ban on mainland driving, according to reports.
The street mayhem unfolded on the highway linking Shenzhen and Guangzhou and has been labeled the mainland’s “biggest street racing case ever.”
According to the South China Morning Post, Xie Xingming, the deputy head of the department of the municipal commission of transport, told a media gathering that the race was the largest in terms of “scale, number of vehicles involved, and potential dangers.”
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