Super speeder arrested for going 156 mph

The man is facing some serious consequences for having the need for speed. He was clocked at 156 miles per hour in a 55 zone today in Hillsborough County. Nearly three times the posted speed limit. We're here to break down more on the arrest and the super speeder law is Fox 13's Brianna Redondo. Brianna, what can you tell us? Well, certainly hearing that number, Haley, that speed is going to raise some eyebrows. The super speeder law has been in effect here in Florida for a little over a year, and it makes excessive speeding a serious crime. So dash camera video from Hillsborough County shows a sheriff's deputy pulling over a driver near US 41 South and Anna Avenue in Gibsonton. And you can see here the deputy You will ask the driver if he had an emergency, and that driver says no. Deputies say that that driver, 26-year-old Julian Camacho-Patrone, was going 156 miles per hour in a 55-speed limit zone, and that falls under that super speeder law. So that's a violation of driving 100 miles an hour or faster, regardless of the posted limit, or driving 50 miles an hour or more over the posted speed limit. Now, I spoke with the Florida Highway Patrol trooper about the consequences. We're doing everything that we can to combat this, and we just want everyone to realize that no warnings are given in a situation like this. You are looking at 30 days in jail, $500 fine, and your vehicle being towed. And if you were to do this again within a five-year period, 90 days in jail, up to a $1,000 fine or both, and again, seizing your vehicle. Now, Trooper Ken Watson says that driving that fast jeopardizes everyone's safety, including your own. And the driver in this case, again, his name is Julian Camacho Patron. He was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle at excessive speeds over 50 miles an hour. Now, he was arrested and then bonded out of jail tonight. Now, Brianna, so have law enforcement seen any increase or decrease since the law went into effect? Yeah, that's certainly something, Haley, that they are tracking. And over the summer, Florida was actually a part of a crackdown on super speeders. And Trooper Watson tells me he's based in Sarasota. He tells me that the numbers have gone up a bit. You know, unfortunately, we have seen it go up a little bit. But we also have to remember that here in Florida, on the West Coast, one of the most beautiful places to live. We continue to have folks move in, so we have many more vehicles on the roadway, so there's more opportunities to see these speeding events, and that's why it was so critically important that the state legislature came up with this. Now the message, of course, is to just slow down when you're on the roads, but Trooper Watson does say that if you do have that need for speeding, you want to go fast, like 150 miles per hour, there are safe places for you to go and do that just as long as it's not on the roads. Yeah, exactly. Get your need for speed out somewhere else.