ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Orange County Sheriff’s Office posted a video to its social media page on Tuesday, showing a deputy pulling over a teen found speeding on the highway.
Deputies said the teen was clocked driving 132 mph along the Interstate 4 Express lanes. The maximum speed limit on Florida interstates is 70 mph.
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According to the sheriff’s office, the deputy called the teen’s father to come pick him up. The deputy was seen in the video issuing a speeding citation to the teen.
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“I guess, personally, why I called you and made you come out here is I had a kid about eight, nine, ten years ago that I stopped in a brand new Mustang, and his parents were going through a divorce,” the deputy told the parents. “They bought him this car and all that. He was like 16... Three weeks after that court date, he wrapped the car around a tree.”
The sheriff’s office said that speeding is a “very real danger we work to combat every day.”
Earlier this year we caught a teenager driving 132 mph on I-4!
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) August 1, 2023
Corporal Greg Rittger made his parents come pick him up and shared a cautionary story with them.
Excessive speeding is a very real danger we work to combat every day. #DriveSafely pic.twitter.com/BzdDhvF59B
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