The thrill of piloting a vehicle at high speeds is undeniable, but such activities are obviously best kept on the race track. Unfortunately, the driver behind the wheel of a Chevy Camaro in North Las Vegas failed to figure that out, catching not one, but two back-to-back speeding citations within the course of just a few minutes.
In a recent post to social media, as reported by KSNV, North Las Vegas Police say that on Friday, July 15th, the driver of a red Chevy Camaro was stopped at Lake Mead Boulevard and McDaniel around 8:22 p.m. local time. The driver was issued a citation for speeding, with police clocking the sports car at 73 mph in a 35-mph zone.
That’s a rather heavy citation, and it undoubtedly includes some stiff fines and other serious consequences as well. However, that wasn’t enough to stop the Chevy Camaro driver from repeating the whole thing, this time at even higher speeds.
According to police, the driver was stopped again only minutes after receiving the first citation, this time for going 106 mph in a 35-mph zone.
The driver was subsequently arrested on suspicion of reckless driving, and the Chevy Camaro was towed. According to the report, the arrest was part of a multi-jurisdictional effort to address speeding.
“Great job to #NLVPD Traffic officers for making our streets safer,” the social media post reads.
On July 15th, in North Las Vegas, this driver was arrested for reckless driving (106MPH in a 35MPH zone). Only moments after given a citation for reckless driving (73MPH in a 35MPH zone).
Great job to #NLVPD Traffic officers for making our streets safer #TooFast #SlowDown! pic.twitter.com/ccFcm1eX31
— NLVPD (@NLVPD) July 22, 2022
Indeed, it begs the question – what exactly was the driver behind the wheel of the red Chevy Camaro thinking to go out and get arrested minutes after receiving the first ticket? Maybe they thought that the first citation covered them for subsequent speeding tickets? Or maybe the driver wasn’t satisfied with the 73-mph citation and wanted something more “impressive”?
Regardless, we hope the double citations and a trip to jail help to communicate to the driver that doing triple-digit speeds on the street is a very bad idea.
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Comments
When he was a young man, my father got two speeding tickets in one day. He had to go before a judge for the second. The judge asked if he’d had a speeding ticket before, my dad said, “Never before today.”
He also flipped a convertible. But in my lifetime, he’s never even had a fender-bender. He did scrape the corners of his LeSabre in his condo parking garage in his 80s (or that could have been the late step-monster).
Good ! Throw the book at him and charge the clown with C&I driving too and take his license away for a long, long time.
some people never learn. Rinse and repeat. Since this was Las Vegas, it might have been a rental car.
I used to be a highway truck driver, retired now… one night there were two idiots racing, one went by on the left but the guy passing me on the right lost control, hit my tractor drive tires, and bounced off the concrete retainer wall, hit my trailer tires, and ran into a light standard…
End result, The car, a brand new fully loaded Honda Prelude was totaled. The driver was charged and convicted of dangerous driving and lost his license for a year. The insurance company declined coverage because it was dangerous driving and the driver had to pay the dealer/ leasing company full costs of the vehicle.