Yahoo Autos Dodge Charger Screams To Almost 150 MPH During Police Chase
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There’s something alluring about high-speed police chases. After all, that’s how NASCAR got its start way back in the day as moonshine runners built their vehicles to dust the cops. And today police chase videos really rack up the views online.
Man carjacked, then run over by his own vehicle.
Even though this footage of a Dodge Charger fleeing police in Los Angeles County, California has no audio and is brief, it’s still interesting to see. That’s mostly because the suspect pushes his vehicle to almost 150 mph all while being tracked by helicopter.
Not that long ago, few production cars could hit those kinds of speeds. It was mostly purpose-built racecars which could sustain such a run, but thanks to technology things have changed. Is it for the better? That’s definitely up for debate.
Situations like this help add fuel to some people’s desire of letting the government limit how fast cars can travel. That’s a reality coming to Europe and could become one here in the US. We’re not fans of such heavy-handed regulation, but when guys are pulling tricks like this we can understand why some are swayed in that direction.
After all, can you imagine what might have happened had this Mopar muscle car slammed into another vehicle while going almost 150 mph? Your time to react and avoid a slower-moving ride when traveling that fast isn’t long at all, maybe a split second depending on visibility.
But fleeing criminals often don’t care about the risk they’re laying on everyone else, not to mention themselves. We don’t know why this guy really didn’t want to get caught. A lot of times it’s because the fleeing suspect has warrants or is a felon with a gun and/or drugs. But Fox 11 Los Angeles doesn’t give us any info about that, so we’re just conjecturing here.
Still, just watching this Charger go so fast, even though it’s so irresponsible, is fascinating.
Image via Fox 11 Los Angeles/YouTube
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