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DRAPER — A man who said he was going home from work was arrested Wednesday after police said he was clocked going 125 mph.
At about 6:40 a.m., a Utah Highway Patrol trooper patrolling I-15 near 14800 South spotted a Dodge Charger going north “at a very high rate of speed in heavy traffic, making multiple lane changes unsafely. The subject was in and out of several lanes, including the HOV lane,” according to a police booking affidavit.
The car was recorded going 115 mph, and the driver continued to “make several lane changes passing cars on the right and left nearly causing several crashes and increased his speed to 125 mph,” the affidavit alleges.
After pulling the man over, he told the trooper “he was on his way home from work” and later claimed “he was trying to get away from another vehicle that had cut him off,” according to the affidavit.
The 57-year-old man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of exhibition driving and making an HOV-lane violation.
