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Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Hours after police caught a 17-year-old boy allegedly speeding more than 100km/h over the limit on a motorcycle in Perth’s southern suburbs, they caught a 24-year-old man in a separate incident allegedly driving at similar speeds in Perth’s east.In what police have called “an appalling example of driver behaviour”, both men have had their vehicles impounded and will face a magistrate after they were charged with reckless driving.A Triumph motorcycle is impounded by police after it was allegedly clocked travelling over 100km/h ovet the speed limit.Credit: Police MediaThe 17-year-old was allegedly captured travelling at 175km/h in a 70km/h speed zone at about 5pm on Friday in Treeby.The boy, who only holds a learner’s permit, was travelling in an easterly direction, police say, on Jandakot Road near Cessna Road on a Triumph motorcycle.Separately, on Saturday morning, a 24-year-old man was allegedly detected by police travelling at 182km/h in a 70km/h speed zone in Forrestdale.Police said the man was arrested just after 6.30am after he was caught in his Toyota Camry speeding on the Tonkin Highway near Ranford Road.A police speedometer detects a driver allegedly travelling at 182km/h.Credit: Police MediaHe also allegedly never held a driver’s license and was allegedly over the drink-driving limit.“Driving at 112km/h over the speed limit, while nearly three times the legal alcohol limit, on wet roads, is an appalling example of driver behaviour,” Acting inspector Steve Waltrs of the Road Policing Command said.

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