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Young driver's high speed showing-off leads to death and serious injury
For the very rich, nothing seems out of reach - take Ivan Mazour for example. He is the 22-year-old son of a Russian billionaire who went to school at Eton and was, until recently, studying for a degree at Cambridge. Mazour has a passion for fast cars and more money than the Beckhams so he went out and bought a Mitsubishi Evolution VIII, reputedly the fastest saloon car ever made (and the exorbitant young driver car insurance to go with it). But no amount of money can undo the damage Mazour caused when the temptation to show off in the ridiculously overpowered car got the better of him one night. He had been drinking - tests said he was nearly thee times over the limit - and smoking cannabis before taking the Mitsubishi out for a spin with his friend Charlie Green and Charlie's fiancée, Dookie Groves. Mazour, who 'never drove slowly' according to friends, was doing nearly 90mph when the car rammed into a lamppost, span across a central reservation and crashed head-first into a BMW, seriously injuring its driver and five passengers. In the Mitsubishi, Mazour was badly injured and understandably shaken up. His friend Charlie Green was dead.
"You loved fast cars and you loved driving fast cars and there is nothing wrong with that," said Judge Anthony Pitts, sentencing the repentant rich-kid at Southwark Crown Court.
"But you were in something of a special position as far as that was concerned in that you were able to afford incredibly fast vehicles. You had a confidence on the roads and a tendency to show off that showed itself all through the fateful night of this crash." Judge Pitts sent Mazour down for six and a half years on charges of death by dangerous driving and banned him from driving for eight years. "The prohibitive cost of young driver car insurance on really fast cars is enough to keep most of these models out of the hands of less experienced, younger drivers," said Mike Page, spokesman for the cheap car insurance specialists at Hoot. "But when money is no object, there's little anyone can do to stop speed addicts like Mazour risking their lives and their friends' lives."
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