MARATHON, Fla.—Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch. Col. Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office who conjured up the concept more than […]
YONKERS, N.Y.—A car speeding away from police Tuesday night in suburban New York City barreled into another car, splitting that vehicle in half and killing five people, officials said. The 36-year-old driver of the speeding car and four 18-year-old men, who were ejected from the other vehicle, died in the crash. The fatal collision happened around […]
TRIER—A 51-year-old German man suspected of murdering five people, including a baby, by plowing a speeding car into a pedestrian zone in Trier on Tuesday, is to be held in prison after a judge decided he did not need to be sent to a psychiatric institution. The man, who had been drunk, had shown psychological […]
A 16-year-old driver in Canada told police that he was speeding because he ate too many hot chicken wings. Canadian police in Manitoba caught the teen driving over 170 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour), Global News reported. In the zone he was driving in, the limit was 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles […]
A western German driver narrowly avoided a fine after a bird miraculously flew in the path of a speed camera and obscured the image on May 21. North Rhine-Westphalia Police described the moment a pigeon appeared in the frame and obscured the driver’s face, concealing necessary evidence to prove who was behind the wheel, as a form […]
A self-proclaimed YouTube star has been arrested after he posted a live video of himself allegedly speeding over 180 mph on a highway in Mississippi, police said. Beau Alan Rogel, 38, was arrested on April 1 after he filmed himself speeding across Spillway Road from Rankin County to Madison County the night before, Rankin County Sheriff’s […]
As the polar vortex affects a large portion of the United States, police in Illinois took to Facebook to warn people not to follow the example of one driver who was caught going 115 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone. Illinois State Police posted a portion of a ticket that was given to […]
A police officer in Ohio posted an open letter on Facebook that included a plea to drivers to stop speeding. An officer with the North Ridgeville Police Department recently posted the letter through the department’s page, after pulling over a teenager who was driving 100 miles per hour in a 65 mile per hour zone. […]
