PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 25-year-old motorcyclist was arrested on June 12 for allegedly traveling 110 mph in a posted 45 mph zone on June 12 near Southeast Veterans Memorial Parkway and Southeast Port St. Lucie Boulevard in Port St. Lucie, according to Port St. Lucie Police Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Alex Daniel Tatum of Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., was stopped while headed east across the bridge at about 9:25 p.m., June 12 on Southeast Port St. Lucie Boulevard as police were conducting group traffic enforcement in that area, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Tatum was charged with violating the state\u2019s \u201csuper speeder law,\u201d which makes it a criminal offense \u2013 a misdemeanor \u2013 to operate a motor vehicle 50 mph or more above the posted speed limit. The law went into effect on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
When asked why he was traveling at such a high rate of speed, Tatum told officers he was listening to music and was not paying attention to his speed, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
At 110 mph, a driver can travel more than 160 feet every second, which could ultimately prove catastrophic for the driver or other motorists, according to a statement in the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Tatum was transported to the St. Lucie County Jail where he was released on June 13 on a $150 bond, according to jail records. His motorcycle was towed from the scene, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 25-year-old motorcyclist was arrested on June 12 for allegedly traveling 110 mph in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-309672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309672","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=309672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}