Big brother in the passenger seat

THE two teenagers were killed instantly when Edwin Matos smashed his 2002 Pontiac Trans Am Firehawk into their car in Pembroke Pines, Florida. At his trial in May, Matos’s defence team claimed he had been travelling at 80 to 100 kilometres per hour. But it was his car that found him out. An on-board memory in the airbag unit recorded how the vehicle was being driven in the last few seconds before the crash. It showed that Matos was driving at 180 km/h, more than three times the speed limit, at the time of the crash. He was sentenced to…