Editor’s note: There’s been an update to this story.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper arrested a driver on State Route 347 earlier this month after clocking the vehicle at 103 mph in a 65-mph zone, according to the agency’s latest #SpeedingSaturday post.
DPS said the stop occurred Feb. 16 in Pinal County. A trooper used LiDAR to measure the vehicle’s speed at 103 mph.
The driver told the trooper he was trying to get home from work and that it was not his usual car, so he was not used to the gas pedal, according to DPS.
The driver was arrested for criminal speed and reckless driving and booked into jail. The sedan was towed and impounded for 20 days.
The post marks the return of DPS’ #SpeedingSaturday campaign, which frequently highlights enforcement activity on the streets of Maricopa and on SR 347.
DPS had paused the series for three weeks following the Feb. 4 deaths of two members of the agency’s Aviation Bureau. The crew of Ranger 56 was killed in the line of duty when the aircraft crashed while responding to an active shooter incident in Flagstaff.
InMaricopa has requested the name of the arrestee.
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What bright light designed your website to have a stupid panel with more new items slide out from left to right, and cover 1/2 of the article I’m reading? Amateur.
Calm down, dude. You don’t need to be rude about it.
You could have ten lanes each way on any AZ highway especially the 347 and this will continue.Good job LEO.Thank you.
He was not used to the gas pedal 😝
Work an 8 or 10 hour shift and then off to jail! That’s a rough one! Gotta watch the speeding in AZ, you can get in some serious trouble here for criminal speeding/reckless driving. State troopers love writing that ticket!