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SOUTH JORDAN — A police officer who said he had to double check to make sure an airplane wasn't approaching him, discovered that it was actually a driver excessively speeding down the Mountain View Corridor.
Early Tuesday, a South Jordan police officer was at 10600 South on the Mountain View Corridor when a pair of headlights approached from behind him.
"As I looked from my rearview mirror to my vehicle-mounted radar, I observed this single vehicle in the roadway traveling at 136 mph in a posted 55 mph zone. After confirming this speed was not an airplane or object in the air by looking into my driver mirror, I noticed the headlights approaching me. I then looked back at my radar in attempts to lock the speed where it was now displaying 142 mph," a police booking affidavit states.
The officer pulled over the Kia vehicle and the driver "immediately apologized" for speeding, the affidavit says.
The 20-year-old man was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of exhibition driving on the highway and going over 100 mph.
