- The Corvette Z06 was clocked at 142 mph on Tempe’s Mill Avenue Bridge.
- Police used a bumper-mounted grappler device to stop the car the next day.
- The 19-year-old driver faces up to 1.5 years in prison and a $150,000 fine.
The 19-year-old driver of a Corvette Z06 in Tempe, Arizona, learned the hard way that pushing a car to more than four times the speed limit rarely ends well. What began as a late-night thrill turned into a serious brush with the law.
Now the teenager has been charged with felony flight and has had his powerful whip impounded by the local authorities. Fortunately for us, the entire episode was caught on camera, both from the suspect’s car and by the police.
Video captured from the onboard Performance Data Recorder of the Corvette shows that on the evening of September 9, the driver hit 142 mph (229 km/h) while racing solo across Mill Avenue Bridge, heading over Tempe Town Lake…