DENVER (KDVR) — A motorcyclist was arrested after a Colorado State Patrol aircraft clocked the rider allegedly traveling 142 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 25, said the agency.
CSP said on Thursday, at around 2:45 p.m., troopers flying in the patrol airplane first located the motorcyclist allegedly “traveling at an extremely high rate of speed” near milepost 171 on northbound I-25 between Larkspur and Castle Rock.
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Initially, the aircraft estimated that the motorcyclist was traveling over 100 mph and later relocated the motorcyclist near milepost 180, where the rider was allegedly weaving through traffic, said the agency.
At around that time, the aircraft used its visual average speed computer and recorder system, which the motorcyclist was allegedly clocked at “142 miles per hour in a posted 75-mph zone and as it entered a 65-mph construction zone.”
CSP said its ground troopers were directed to the motorcyclist and initiated a traffic stop on I-25, where the alleged rider, who has been identified as Matthew Galek, 27, was arrested…