Friday, April 19, 2024
You’ve seen them. They rocket past you in the blink of an eye. Your blood pressure spikes, but common sense prevails, you count to five ... SLOWLY ... and your heart is back to normal. The motorcycle speed demons on the highway must think they’re invincible or they wouldn’t be zooming to 140 miles per hour. That’s right. A motorcycle driver in Hood County was clocked at 140 on Highway 377 on a late night in June last year. That’s according to The Drive website that took up the task to find and publish all speeding tickets issued by the Texas Highway Patrol in excess of 120 mph from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 last year. Over 200 tickets in the state fit that description. Perhaps as no surprise, Hood County had four in the list – numbers 22, 29, 30 and 31. No. 22 was the 140 mph. The other three were limping along at a mere 139 mph, also on Highway 377. The fastest in the state? The driver of a 2003 Porsche 911, stopped for doing 166 mph in a 75 mph zone on June 10 in rural Carson County east of Amarillo. And the best excuse? The driver of a 2018 Mazda CX-5, who claimed she was doing 123 mph in a 65 zone because she was “running late to take her daughter to the DPS office to get her driver (’s) license.” The Drive noted that Texas ranks near the top of the list nationwide in annual speed-related crashes and fatalities.
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