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The cop wasn't behind him at first. He had just turned on to the road and was headed towards him. McQuade Rd is only a few hundred yards from the Sinclair mentioned in the article. At that time of day, near twilight, deer are on the move between forested areas and the lake. Hitting a deer at that speed would almost surely result in a pretty bad wreck.
Funny you should mention that, because that was my first thought as well. 4 or 5 years ago I collisioned a deer on that very same road, heading south, just 3 or 4 miles north of the Sinclair. I was only doing 70 or so, and it just blew up the front end of my Subaru - not to mention the entire deer. There were deer fragments on the rear window of the Forester.
This is a bad time of year to be speeding up there, because the deer are hungry and just coming out of the woods to find something to eat. They like the areas beside the highway, because it's open and gets a lot of sun, which means the snow melts first. They browse on the exposed grasses and small plants as the snow melts and exposes it. They're not thinking about Camaros; they're hungry and desperate and make irrational choices regarding vehicle traffic. This guy's lucky he got stopped by a cop and not a deer.
Highway 61 is pretty winding, and is on the edge of Lake Superior. One wrong move and that driver would have ended up in the lake - or pushing someone else into the lake. I had to drive 61 for work for a while and always found it maddening when tourists (from Minneapolis/St. Paul and the burbs for the most part) just hadta hadta drive that road too fast, making it dangerous for everyone. Slow down and enjoy the scenery and save the high speeds for the salt flats!!!
The car should be destroyed for charity. Those events where you can select a baseball bat, sledgehammer, golf club, ax, or a variety of other toys and pay per swing.
He could have just gotten back from Germany, driving the Autobahn, where no ticket would have been issued.
Back in the mid-80's, I rented a car and spent 3 weeks driving around Great Britain, and I was shocked at the driving speeds over there on those motorways, at the time. I had a mid-sized Vauxhaul, and I never had a chance to get into that far left lane, doing 110MPH, as those English Rovers would go swishing by me at? God only knows how fast!
Shortly, after returning to the U.S., I got a speeding ticket!
In AZ that is a felony, he would have been arrested on the spot and his vehicle impounded, his license confiscated, and spent the night in jail or until bailed out.
Highway 61 is pretty winding, and is on the edge of Lake Superior. One wrong move and that driver would have ended up in the lake - or pushing someone else into the lake. I had to drive 61 for work for a while and always found it maddening when tourists (from Minneapolis/St. Paul and the burbs for the most part) just hadta hadta drive that road too fast, making it dangerous for everyone. Slow down and enjoy the scenery and save the high speeds for the salt flats!!!
He was on the expressway part from Duluth to Two Harbors, 4 lane divided, not many turns and a mile inland from the lake.
I wonder if anyone has tried to turn around and sue/blame the car manufacturer for making a car that goes much faster than any speed limit in the country!
If the cop was using instant on radar, at that speed, it might be too late to do anything but pull over and wait. And if the cop is using pop technology, he would not know until the cop turned the unit on full time. With pop, it is too short of a signal for a detector to sense, but the cop gets a notice someone is speeding, so he turns it on full time, and nails the speeder.
If your doing 170 I would think that by the time he ever got going you would be long gone. Most cop cars only run 140-150ish. Of course it depends what they are driving. But even if they are driving a hemi charger it would take some time to get up to that speed to catch them.
Must have been going downhill. Stock American cars cannot go that fast.
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But even if they are driving a hemi charger it would take some time to get up to that speed to catch them.
