{"id":316571,"date":"2026-06-23T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316571\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:59:09","slug":"85-year-old-florida-man-williams-bosworth-arrested-for-hitting-110-mph-in-street-race-against-corvette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316571\/","title":{"rendered":"85-year-old Florida man Williams Bosworth arrested for hitting 110 mph in street race against Corvette"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 85-year-old cigar-smoking Florida man has been accused of street racing and hitting over 100 mph before being pulled over and telling police he was only out enjoying a late-night drive in his \u201cfavorite car.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident happened at around 11:30 p.m. on June 12 when an officer from the Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office clocked Williams Bosworth\u2019s Nissan 350Z convertible racing a red Chevrolet Corvette in a 45 mph zone in Leesburg, about an hour outside of Orlando, CBS12 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Body camera footage obtained by WKMG News 6<\/a> shows an officer approaching Bosworth\u2019s car after being pulled over, demanding that he turn off his car while puffing on a cigarillo.<\/p>\n

The deputy then tells the 85-year-old that he clocked him at 110 mph and the Corvette at 125 mph.<\/p>\n

Bosworth tells the officer that the other driver \u201cswerved\u201d at him and he was only driving that fast to get away from them while he was \u201cout having a ride in my favorite car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, Mr. Bosworth. I wasn\u2019t born last night,\u201d the officer tells him. \u201cI know what street racing looks like when I see it. You guys were street racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bosworth remained adamant to the officer that he wasn\u2019t street racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never intended to cause anyone any problems, and I don\u2019t want any problems,\u201d Bosworth tells the cop, as he hands over his license and registration.<\/p>\n

The officer wasn\u2019t buying it and explained Florida\u2019s super speeder law to Bosworth before ordering him out of the car and put in cuffs.<\/p>\n

\"WilliamsWilliams Bosworth was pulled over driving 110 mph in his Nissan 350Z while allegedly racing a red Chevrolet Corvette. CBS 12<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t street racing,\u201d the 85-year-old again tells the officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, well you might not call it street racing, you might call it highway racing, road racing. Whatever you want to call it . . . whatever you\u2019re doing, we don\u2019t condone that here in Lake County,\u201d the officer replied.<\/p>\n

Bosworth was then arrested for driving over 100 mph and charged with street racing and dangerous excessive speeding, CBS12 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BosworthBosworth was then arrested for driving over 100 mph and charged with street racing and dangerous excessive speeding. CBS 12<\/p>\n

The driver of the red Corvette, Philip Signorino, 57, was also pulled over by another officer up the road and arrested on the same charges.<\/p>\n

Both men denied racing and later posted bond, according to jail records obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n

Under Florida\u2019s super speeder law<\/a>, drivers caught going 50 mph or more over the posted limit \u2014 or topping 100 mph regardless of the posted limit \u2014 can be arrested, with the offense treated as a criminal offense rather than a routine traffic ticket.<\/p>\n

Convictions can result in fines, license suspension and, in some cases, jail time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 85-year-old cigar-smoking Florida man has been accused of street racing and hitting over 100 mph before being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,50124,28,30,29,27899,4974,1164,4278],"class_list":["post-316571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-drag-racing","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-police-body-cameras","tag-racing","tag-speeding","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316571","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=316571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}