19-year-old late to job interview drives 130 mph, outruns trooper, CT police say
A 19-year-old driving 132 mph outran a state trooper on a Connecticut highway, then later explained that he was late to a job interview, police said.
The Cromwell resident, who was driving a relative’s car, has been charged with nine offenses, Connecticut State Police said in a June 4 news release. Cromwell is about a 15-mile drive south from Hartford.
Information on the 19-year-old’s legal representation wasn’t immediately available.
When the state trooper noticed a speeding Mercedes in Cromwell along Interstate 91 shortly before 9 a.m. June 4, they switched on their emergency lights and went to pull the driver over, according to police.
However, the driver, later identified as the 19-year-old, sped away from the trooper “while making unsafe lane changes and weaving in and out of traffic,” police said.
He led the trooper on a chase until the trooper stopped the pursuit because of the danger to other drivers, according to authorities.
State police learned the Mercedes was owned by the 19-year-old’s family member, who said their relative was driving the morning of June 4, police said.
The relative’s tip led troopers to find the 19-year-old’s phone number the same day, according to authorities.
After giving him a call, police said he mentioned his job interview as the reason he outran a trooper.
The 19-year-old was arrested, according to police, on charges of:
Reckless driving
Disobeying an officer’s signal
Failure to maintain lane
Passing on the right
Improper turn
Passing at an unsafe distance
Engaging police in a pursuit
Interfering with an officer
Reckless endangerment in the first degree
He’s due in Middletown Superior Court on June 17 after he was “released on a $2,500 bond,” police said.
.jpg)