An off-duty police officer was "showing off" when he drove a marked car at speeds up to 160kmh with three colleagues before crashing into a concrete barrier after leaving Canberra's Summernats festival, a prosecutor has said.
The former police officer, Ben Robert Wager, appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court for a sentence hearing after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated furious, reckless and dangerous driving.
While the exact date of the crime was not disclosed during the hearing, the court heard the group was driving home from Summernats after the officer had finished a 12-hour shift.
