- A motorcyclist in Texas was caught by police after speeding at 104 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone and attempting to evade officers.
A Texas motorcycle rider learned the hard way that outrunning police and outwitting the law are two very different things. Officers with the Magnolia Police Department clocked a motorcyclist tearing down FM 1488 at more than double the posted speed limit before the rider decided to take his chances and bolt. He got caught. And then he said something that probably made the arresting officer’s day.
The incident unfolded on FM 1488, a busy Montgomery County corridor that cuts through a mix of residential and commercial stretches west of Houston. According to the department’s account, officers observed the motorcycle pass them at 104 miles per hour in a posted 50 mph zone. That’s not a slightly heavy foot on the throttle. That’s nearly twice the legal limit, the kind of speed where reaction time compresses and margin for error disappears. Officers signaled for the rider to stop. He did not comply.
Instead of pulling over, the rider led police on a pursuit that eventually wound through a neighborhood off TX-242 before coming to an end. Once in custody, the man offered up what may be the most confidently wrong explanation for a bad decision seen in recent memory: he said he ran because he didn’t think police were allowed to chase motorcycles…