DUBAI: A Canadian boxer killed in a Dubai car crash early Sunday had posted an Instagram picture of himself with a rented Ferrari only a day earlier, telling his followers he “wouldn’t speed.”

Cody Nixon, on holiday in Dubai, is believed to have been driving the Ferrari 458 Spider with three passengers when it crashed into a lamppost. On impact, all four passengers were thrown out of the car and died from injuries they sustained as a result, according to the Dubai police.

Nixon had earlier posted an Instagram picture, in which he had donned Emirati national dress and posed inside the yellow Ferrari. The caption read: “Just landed (in) Dubai and picked up the Ferrari! Don’t worry I won’t speed.”

The smash happened near Dubai’s Jumeirah Lake Towers at about 12.40 am on Sunday, according to Dubai Traffic Police Director, Col. Saif Muhair Al-Mazroui.

“We received a report of an accident on Al-Sarayat road near Jumeirah Lake Towers, where a car swerved, hit the curb and the driver lost control and hit a lamppost,” Col. Mazroui said.

In another report, Al-Mazroui said the crash had “split the car in half.”