The Hongcouver | Chinese teenager fast, Vancouver police furious: wrecked Mercedes was doing 250km/h in a 50km/h zone

There’s fast. There’s too fast. Then there’s Yue Hui Wang fast.

According to the police account, the Chinese teen was driving a friend home through leafy suburban Westside Vancouver in a Mercedes-Benz registered to Wang’s parents around 3am last April 12. Despite the late hour, he was in a hurry.

Police say Wang’s car – a 476-horsepower AMG C63 coupe - was travelling at an incredible 250km/h in a 50km/h zone on Southwest Marine Drive, when it hurtled through an intersection on the wrong side of the road, then vanished into a large private property. The car was travelling so fast it took an hour to find the ruined black V8 sportscar in someone’s front yard after another motorist saw the roadside debris and a resident heard the smash.

“We’re very lucky, I think, that we didn’t pull two dead bodies out of this vehicle,” said Vancouver Police Constable Brian Montague on Wednesday at a press conference to announce Wang’s recent arrest, labelling the teenage pair’s survival as “nothing more than a fluke”.

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Wang was 18 at the time of the crash, which sent his 17-year-old passenger to intensive care with head trauma, brain swelling and broken bones. “The driver was relatively unharmed, believe it or not,” said Montague.

Wang returned to China while the investigation into the crash was under way and a warrant was put out for him; ironically, his recent airport arrest came when he returned to Vancouver to attend his Canadian citizenship ceremony.

Montague said he could not discuss the conversations that took place between police and the accused and his parents while Wang was in China “but you can’t not be aware that an investigation is going on when you are involved in a collision like this…whether or not he knew there was a warrant out for his arrest, that I am not sure.”