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Eight Arrested in Malaysia After Viral Video of Illegal Motorcycle Race Blocking Traffic on Johor Expressway

SOURCE — PAUL TANTAGS — #Safety  #Southeast Asia  #マレーシア  #違法レース↗ Read the full story

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Eight Arrested in Malaysia After Viral Video of Illegal Motorcycle Race Blocking Traffic on Johor Expressway — PHOTO — PAUL TAN / © Paul Tan↗ View original

Police in Malaysia's Johor state arrested eight men aged 26-45 after a viral video showed an illegal motorcycle race on the Second Link Expressway, with bystanders stopping traffic and setting off firecrackers. Two motorcycles were seen racing in the clip, and the suspects, including a motorsports influencer, are being investigated under the Road Transport Act 1987.

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Toshio Araki

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Setting off firecrackers to celebrate an illegal race sounds like a scene out of a B-movie car chase. Except unlike the movies, this was real lives on a real highway. That a motorsports influencer was mixed up in it makes me think hard about how influence gets used, honestly.