{"id":42805,"date":"2025-11-11T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:44:09","slug":"florida-driver-clocked-at-107-mph-says-she-just-wanted-to-get-to-little-caesars-before-it-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42805\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida driver clocked at 107 mph says she just wanted to get to Little Caesars before it closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida driver who was clocked at 107 mph told cops she was going so fast because she was trying to get to Little Caesars for pizza before it closed, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Yazmin Erazo, 21, allegedly hit the triple digits in her Kia just minutes to midnight \u2014 her local eatery\u2019s closing time \u2014 on Thursday while flying northbound on US Highway 19 in Palm Harbor north of St. Petersburg, where the posted speed limit is only 55, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/pizza-holiday-woman-arrested-107-mph-us-19-pinellas-deputies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Fox 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A deputy from the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office tracked her speed on his radar at 107 mph and pulled her over, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.99129353;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37637969\" width=\"585\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/107-mph-kia-vehicle-sped-115220644.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Yazmin Erazo.\" class=\"wp-image-37637969\"  \/>Yazmin Erazo, who was clocked at 107 mph, told cops she was going so fast because she was trying to get to Little Caesars for pizza before it closed, authorities said. Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>As Erazo was being taken into custody, she revealed she risked driving so dangerously just to get to the pizza joint before it closed, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>She was placed under arrest for dangerous, excessive speeding without incident, according to an affidavit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/woman-going-107-mph-on-us-19-was-trying-to-get-to-little-caesars-before-it-closed-affidavit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obtained by WFLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43618513;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37637975\" width=\"847\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/palm-harbor-fl-115220768.jpg\" alt=\"Little Caesars Pizza restaurant in Palm Harbor, FL.\" class=\"wp-image-37637975\"  \/>As Erazo was being taken into custody, she revealed she risked driving so dangerously just to get to the pizza joint before it closed, authorities said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The driver was booked into the Pinellas County Jail and later released on bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida driver who was clocked at 107 mph told cops she was going so fast because she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,28189,11510,1164,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-42805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-little-caesars","13":"tag-pizza","14":"tag-speeding","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805","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=42805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}