Teen In Corvette Hits 168 MPH While Running From Police

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Hat tip, Jalopnik

Teen In Corvette Hits 168 MPH While Running From Police
Apparently, having fun is illegal now and somehow an arrestable offense.

By Collin Woodard
Published 52 minutes ago

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Kearney teen in Corvette reached 168 mph in chase, Nebraska troopers say

15 hours ago Joseph McCarty

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — A 16-year-old Kearney boy led law enforcement on a 20-mile high-speed chase on Monday, authorities said. ... Just before 10 p.m., a Nebraska state trooper saw a Chevrolet Corvette going over 130 mph on 2nd Avenue in Kearney, near the Interstate 80 interchange.

The Nebraska State Patrol said the teenager kept going south on the road, which turns into Highway 44. ... The trooper tried to pull him over, but the patrol said the teen started going even faster.

A chase ensued, and the boy topped out at 168 mph, according to the patrol. ... Troopers said he turned onto eastbound Highway 6 toward Minden and ran over a set of stop sticks, which slowed down the Corvette. ... When he got to Minden, the teen turned off his lights and parked on a side street, the patrol said.

But law enforcement quickly found him and took him into custody. ... The teen was ticketed on suspicion of willful reckless driving, flight to avoid arrest and speeding.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. What year was the Vette? I hit 149 mph in my 1976 and

Last edited Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:47 PM - Edit history (1)

a tad more in my 1986. Should have added, I was on a race track both times.

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2. Glad the kid didn't wreck. 168 mph is much too fast on a public road as you close with traffic...

so fast and all that needs to happen is for a car you are approaching changes lanes into your path.

At 10 pm other cars are still on the road. 3:00 am when roads are just about free of traffic, maybe the cops would've given him a break.

I've done 120 mph late at night on the L.I.E. on Long Ialand years ago in a Jag sedan. You catch up to traffic real fast.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. "Apparently having fun is illegal now. . . ."

Driving three times the speed limit somehow doesn't strike me as "having fun." And yeah, speeding like that OUGHT to be illegal and an arrestable offense.

Or perhaps whoever wrote that line thinks a crash at that speed would be cute.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Your problem, you have never suffered the debilitating effects of

Affluenza.

Read about it. You'll end up feeling sorry for the kid.

[stopdiggin]

5. Collin Woodard (whomever he is) is a moron

Piece was probably meant as humor, but ....
There is nothing even slightly amusing in this story. Egregiously dangerous and deadly serious. Here's somebody that really ought (but likely won't) to be spending at least some time in a 'secure facility'. And shouldn't be seeing another driver's license - for at least a decade.