MURRAY — A 20-year-old man who allegedly told police he speeds "all the time" was arrested Sunday for going 112 mph on the freeway.
A Utah Highway Patrol trooper was on I-15 near 4800 South about 9 p.m. Sunday when he noticed a car and a motorcycle coming up behind him, traveling side-by-side at a high rate of speed.
"I visually estimated the speed to be approximately 110 mph," the trooper wrote in a police booking affidavit. "Both vehicles passed me, weaving around traffic, when my (radar) indicated a speed of 112 mph in a posted 70 mph zone."
Both vehicles then got onto I-215 and continued going more than 100 mph near 100 East, the affidavit states. The car was pulled over near 500 East. The trooper found a 20-year-old driver, his elderly grandmother, his mother and a 16-year-old girl in the vehicle.
"While in custody, in the back seat of my patrol vehicle, the subject made excited utterances that included the following statements: 'I drive like this all the time,' 'Arresting me teaches me nothing,' 'If I was on my motorcycle I would have ran and punched your mirror,'" according to the affidavit.
The mother told the trooper that her son "wasn't racing, he was just speeding, trying to show off," the affidavit states.
The man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of reckless driving, exhibition driving, reckless endangerment and possessing a tobacco product while under 21. The affidavit does not say whether troopers were able to identify the motorcyclist.
