Highway patrolmen have probably heard many excuses for why people were speeding. Some of them might actually be legitimate, but sometimes a driver’s excuse defies belief. Such was the case in Florida, when a driver caught going 120 mph claimed on a dashcam video that he thought the police were racing him.
A driver on Interstate 4 in Florida’s Seminole County pulled over for going almost twice the speed limit in a 65 mph zone at around 2:20 a.m. with a bizarre excuse for speeding. According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, recently obtained by Road & Track, the driver was doing his speeding in a Honda Civic. The officer, on the other hand, was in a clearly-marked patrol car.
Dashcam video of the traffic stop shows the trooper walking up to the passenger side of the vehicle. After asking for the driver’s license and registration, the driver can be heard telling the patrolman, “I’m going to be real with you. I really thought, like, this is… It’s not, uh, like, uh, an excuse or anything. I thought you were racing me.”…