Illinois police sound alarm after clocking driver going 109 mph in a 65 mph zone

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (First Alert 4) – A driver hitting triple-digit speeds along a busy highway in the Metro East is sparking a renewed push against speeding across the area.

Last week, Illinois State Police said they stopped a car that was speeding on I-270 in Edwardsville. The speed they were going? 109 miles per hour.

“People need to understand that motor vehicles are just as dangerous – they are a bullet,” Chief Thomas L. Trice with the Cahokia Heights Police Department stated…

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