Florida authorities are cracking down on so-called “super speeders” in the state, including a woman who was allegedly driving a whopping 140 mph.<\/p>\n
Under a recent Florida law, a “super speeder” is someone driving 100 mph or faster, or 50 mph or more over the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n
Anyone convicted of violating the law faces fines, imprisonment, or both.<\/p>\n
Martin County Sheriff’s Office officials said they’ve had three “super speeders” stopped and arrested just this month.<\/p>\n
One woman from Fort Myers was driving 115 mph in a 40 mph zone, while another woman from Lake Worth was clocked at 114 mph in a 60 mph zone, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Another woman from Port St. Lucie was clocked by the Florida Highway Patrol going 140 mph in a 70 mph zone on Interstate 95 while on a motorcycle, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Port St. Lucie Police said they arrested a man who was going 100 mph in a 45 mph zone who said he was speeding because he was late for work.<\/p>\n
Another man arrested by Port St. Lucie Police was going 110 mph in a 45 mph zone while on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n
“To make you think twice\u2026at 110 MPH, a vehicle travels more than 160 feet every second. A split-second decision, a vehicle changing lanes, or an unexpected obstacle can quickly turn into a tragedy,” the department said in a Facebook post that included video of the arrest. “Excessive speed doesn’t just endanger the driver\u2014it puts every person sharing the roadway at risk.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida authorities are cracking down on so-called “super speeders” in the state, including a woman who was allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312805","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=312805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}