{"id":311441,"date":"2026-06-18T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311441\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:42:15","slug":"elderly-florida-man-allegedly-street-racing-caught-driving-110-mph-in-45-mph-zone-deputies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311441\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Florida man allegedly street racing, caught driving 110 mph in 45 mph zone: Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An 85-year-old Leesburg man was arrested after Lake County deputies clocked him for allegedly street racing on U.S. Highway 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies caught William Bosworth&#8217;s gray Nissan sports car traveling at 110 mph in a 45 mph zone, an arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bosworth claimed on body camera footage that he wasn&#8217;t speed racing, and was trying to get away from the other driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LEESBURG, Fla. &#8211; An elderly Florida man was arrested for allegedly street racing in Lake County, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When confronted with the accusation, William Bosworth, 85, responded that he was just &#8220;having a little ride in my favorite car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, Bosworth faces two charges for driving in a vehicle race and dangerous excessive speeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy spotted two vehicles appearing to be street racing on U.S. Highway 27 and County Road 33 in Leesburg around 11:40 p.m., June 12. A radar showed a red corvette traveling at 125 miles per hour and a gray sports car traveling at 110 miles per hour \u2013 both in a 45 miles per hour zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After activating his emergency lights, the deputy pulled over Bosworth \u2013 the driver of the gray sports car \u2013 an arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;William Bosworth, 85, was arrested for allegedly super speeding in Lake County.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/327f766e3a5b5f99a4d2bb3fbffcea8e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>William Bosworth, 85, was arrested for allegedly super speeding in Lake County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The interaction between the deputy and the elderly driver was captured on body camera footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When the deputy addressed Bosworth&#8217;s alleged street racing, Bosworth responded, &#8220;No, that guy, he swerved at me.&#8221; Bosworth continued to explain he was driving 110 mph &#8220;only because he swerved at me. I wanted to get away from him before we caused a problem.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bosworth went on to deny he was street racing with the other driver, saying he was &#8220;out having a little ride in my favorite car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bosworth complied with the deputy&#8217;s commands to get out of the car, and he was placed in handcuffs. He was arrested for excessive speeding and street racing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this story was gathered from the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief An 85-year-old Leesburg man was arrested after Lake County deputies clocked him for allegedly street racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,2174,129821,129822,36454,129820],"class_list":["post-311441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lake-county","tag-lake-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-speed-racing","tag-street-racing","tag-william-bosworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311441","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=311441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}