{"id":260243,"date":"2026-05-06T05:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260243\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:51:20","slug":"florida-man-in-bunny-helmet-accused-of-leading-120-mph-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260243\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man in bunny helmet accused of leading 120 mph police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A Florida man<\/a> wearing an unusual motorcycle helmet is accused of leading police on a hare-raising chase in which he allegedly reached speeds of 120 mph as he attempted to out-hop authorities.<\/p>\n

The incident unfolded just after 11 p.m. Sunday, when authorities with the Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> (FHP) were led on a high-speed pursuit by a motorcyclist wearing a bunny helmet along U.S. Highway 19 near Jessup Lane in Pasco County, according to<\/a> FOX 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Troopers reportedly noticed a motorcyclist moving at a high rate of speed and weaving through traffic with his license plate flipped upward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the motorcyclist allegedly failed to pull over<\/a> for a traffic stop, authorities launched a pursuit, FOX 35 reported.<\/p>\n

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Dalton Hubbert is accused of leading police on a high-speed motorcycle chase while wearing a bunny helmet in Pasco County, Florida. (Obtained by FOX 13)<\/p>\n

The driver, later identified as 29-year-old Dalton Hubbert, allegedly led police on a dangerous chase in which he reached speeds of up to 120 mph<\/a> and ran red lights, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pursuit came to an end shortly before 11:30 p.m., when Hubbert reportedly pulled over on Commercial Way in North Weeki Wachee and surrendered to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dalton Hubbert is charged with reckless driving, felony fleeing and eluding law enforcement, driving more than 50 mph over the speed limit and use or display of a weapon during the commission of a felony, according to FOX 35. (Obtained by FOX 13)<\/p>\n

Photos released by FHP show Hubbert being taken into custody wearing a fuzzy white bunny helmet.<\/p>\n

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Authorities with the Florida Highway Patrol pursued a motorcyclist wearing a bunny helmet at high speed in Pasco County, Fla., on Sunday. (Obtained by FOX 13)<\/p>\n

Hubbert was subsequently transported back to Pasco County to face charges of reckless driving, felony fleeing and eluding law enforcement<\/a>, driving more than 50 mph over the speed limit and use or display of a weapon during the commission of a felony, according to FOX 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Florida Highway Patrol did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Julia Bonavita is a U.S. Writer for Fox News Digital and a Fox Flight Team drone pilot. You can follow her at @juliabonavita13<\/a> on all platforms and send story tips to julia.bonavita@fox.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida man wearing an unusual motorcycle helmet is accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,112553,7107,628],"class_list":["post-260243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-motorcycles","tag-police-and-law-enforcement","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243","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=260243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}