Teammate, not US striker Davies, driving speeding car

Senegalese international Jacques Faty has claimed that he and not Sochaux teammate Charlie Davies was driving a car caught speeding last weekend, local newspaper Le Progres reported here on Sunday.

US international striker Davies, 24, was caught behind the wheel of the Audi Q7 clocked at 190km/h at Dole in the Jura district of eastern France and had his driving licence confiscated.

But Faty claimed Sunday he was driving his car at the time of the incident and had panicked and asked Davies to take his place before the police control.

“I asked Charlie to take my place behind the wheel. As he’s American I felt he didn’t risk anything,” Faty told the newspaper from Dakar.

“Today it’s my duty to face up to my actions. Charlie was unfairly accused. A year after a serious road accident he comes across as irresponsible when he wasn’t at fault.”

On October 13, 2009, Davies was involved in a fatal car accident near Washington, D.C. in the United States that took the life of a female passenger.

He sustained serious injuries including a lacerated bladder, fractured right tibia and femur, a fractured elbow, facial injuries and bleeding on the brain.

It cost him a place in the US squad at last summer’s World Cup in South Africa and he is still to return to professional action for Sochaux.

Davies joined Sochaux in the summer of 2009 but has played just eight games for the club to date, scoring two goals.