POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Winter Garden man found out the hard way that Interstate 4 is not a racetrack early Saturday morning. Just after midnight on January 24, 2026, deputies put a stop to a dangerous high-speed contest near Lake Alfred.
It happened around 12:47 a.m.
A deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office noticed a group of cars tearing down the eastbound lanes of the highway. According to the report, the vehicles appeared to be racing each other near Mile Marker 54…