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Here's a new entry in the pantheon of bad excuses for speeding, right up there with the rental Ferrari driver who thought she was "only" doing 100. Police in Georgia have released body cam footage from a stop last month where the driver of a 2007 BMW 3-Series coupe claimed he was caught at 118 mph in a 45 zone because he had just fixed a part and needed to make sure all was well with the car. The part clearly worked—the excuse did not.
A silver BMW was spotted weaving in and out of traffic at high speed on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, a multi-lane thoroughfare lined with homes and businesses, at around 9pm on the night of October 17. In other words, it's exactly the wrong place and time for that sort of extralegal romp, even if the bit about fixing something on the car is true. An officer with the Duluth Police Department quickly stopped the car without incident.
Location: Georgia