{"id":139902,"date":"2026-02-01T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:47:09","slug":"fhp-super-speeder-arrested-after-going-almost-70-mph-over-speed-limit-on-howard-frankland-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139902\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: &#8216;Super speeder&#8217; arrested after going almost 70 mph over speed limit on Howard Frankland Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FHP clocked the driver, 34-year-old Tan Nguyen, going at 123 mph in a 55 mph zone, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/100-mph-florida-new-law-super-speeder\/67-63cb0e80-4252-48b1-89f0-99fd4cd10c6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">&#8220;super speeder&#8221;<\/a> arrest was made after a driver was going almost 70 miles per hour over the speed limit on the Howard Frankland Bridge, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said a trooper was conducting traffic enforcement around noon Sunday when they saw a black Honda Accord driving at an &#8220;extreme&#8221; high rate of speed.<\/p>\n<p>FHP clocked the driver, 34-year-old Tan Nguyen, going at 123 mph in a 55 mph zone, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen is charged with dangerous excessive speeding,<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a &#8220;Super Speeder&#8221; law went into effect, targeting drivers going 50 mph or more over the posted speed limit, or who travel at 100 mph or higher, regardless of the speed limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, those violations are no longer infractions \u2014 they are now criminal offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The first offense can carry up to 30 days in jail, a fine of $500 and a mandatory court appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A second offense within five years could mean up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, along with a license revocation of up to one year.<\/p>\n<p>Previous 10 Tampa Bay News information contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FHP clocked the driver, 34-year-old Tan Nguyen, going at 123 mph in a 55 mph zone, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-139902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}