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Caught on camera: Car goes 198 mph on Wake County [NC] highway
ABC 11 Raleigh-Durham ^ | August 17, 2018 | Josh Chapin

Posted on 08/19/2018 7:06:37 AM PDT by jjotto

WAKE COUNTY, NC (WTVD) -- One hundred ninety-eight miles per hour!

It's how fast a driver in Wake County got up to last month on US-1 near the Triangle Expressway.

William Jefferson, 22, was behind the wheel -- he has since been charged with street racing and reckless driving.

Only on #ABC11 the wild video of a street racing stunt in wake county. If you can believe it, the car got up to 198 MPH! @NCSHP pic.twitter.com/7kL4vBqSju — Josh Chapin (@JoshChapinABC11) August 17, 2018

"It's one reason why I don't want my kids on the roads late at night," said Maryanne McAdams, a mother from Holly Springs. "I don't have a driver yet --we're about a year away but it's that kind of stuff that makes me really nervous."

North Carolina State Highway Patrol said somebody sent them the seven-minute YouTube clip as part of a complaint.

The video shows Jefferson in his Dodge Challenger "Hellcat" driving nearly 130 mph over the speed limit on US-1. In addition, the video shows Jefferson take the car over 100 in a 40 mph zone.

The clip starts with the car doing "doughnuts" in a parking lot before moving to a clip of Jefferson with his hood open at a nearby Sheetz.

"I don't think that road is particularly dangerous but anybody going 198 mph and it's going to be particularly dangerous," McAdams said. "It's really a miracle that nobody was hurt or killed in that."

Jefferson has a clean record except for a few traffic violations.


TOPICS: Local News; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 198mph; 797horsepower; autos; dodgechallenger; northcarolina; speeding; srthellcat; wakecounty
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To: jjotto

If Clinton had a son......


41 posted on 08/19/2018 9:07:37 AM PDT by madrastex
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To: jjotto
"William Jefferson, 22,..."

Named after Bill Clinton?


42 posted on 08/19/2018 9:24:51 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: jjotto

Without reading the article, I knew it was a Dodge Challenger Hellcat.

Wish I was about 40 years younger & about $100,000 richer.


43 posted on 08/19/2018 9:30:38 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: jjotto

It’s in the very short story: Dodge Challenger Hellcat, 700+ horsepower, $65k.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

where did he steal it?


44 posted on 08/19/2018 9:37:57 AM PDT by thinden
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To: Celerity
"Black guys rarely care about the speed of their car."

That was during the '70s, when huge Buick Electras and Cadillacs were all that. And very few people could afford to simply buy monster speed without building it.


45 posted on 08/19/2018 9:44:24 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Clarancebeaks

“707 horsepower cars for sale to anyone who can afford them and yet they want to ban my AR15.”

I got to take a BMW R100RR out for a ride this spring. An incredible machine! With nearly 200HP it top ends about the same as this car and will smoke it in the quarter mile (9.80 sec. @ 148.89 mph. Vs 11.7 seconds at 125.4 mph.) Some 18 year old can wobble around the DMV parking lot a few times and legally buy one of these. That’s really scary! I’m 64 and ride a Ducati. I’m fairly sure if I’d had one at that age I wouldn’t be here.


46 posted on 08/19/2018 9:49:31 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: Bryanw92
But now we need them more than ever since even 4 door sedans have 250+ HP and ride so well that even an idiot feels safe doing 100+ mph.

2018 Cadillac XTS, comes with 304 hp standard.

The XTS V series is 410

.

The BMW 7 series starts out at 320 hp and goes up to 601 in the Alpina


47 posted on 08/19/2018 9:59:33 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

>>2018 Cadillac XTS, comes with 304 hp standard.

Those are high-end sports sedans. I’m talking about Altimas, Sonatas, Camrys, Fusions, etc. Cars for the masses.

Even in the “Muscle Car Era”, for every Charger with a 426 or 440, there were a hundred Chargers with a 318.


48 posted on 08/19/2018 10:07:40 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: moovova

“Mr. Jefferson is a “privileged status” individual in an over-the-top liberal town. He’ll go free with a very light tap on the wrist.”

Yep, they are waiting until he actually kills someone or maybe a whole family out for a drive. Then everyone is going to scream ‘Oh, why didn’t they do something?’ Any takers on my bet?


49 posted on 08/19/2018 10:09:06 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: moovova

“Mr. Jefferson is a “privileged status” individual in an over-the-top liberal town. He’ll go free with a very light tap on the wrist.”

Yep, they are waiting until he actually kills someone or maybe a whole family out for a drive. Then everyone is going to scream ‘Oh, why didn’t they do something?’ Any takers on my bet?


50 posted on 08/19/2018 10:09:06 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: Phinneous

51 posted on 08/19/2018 10:12:02 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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To: libertylover
So how did William Jefferson come up with the money?

He enigma.

52 posted on 08/19/2018 10:14:20 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: madrastex

If you think everyone at Dodge isn’t smiling over this news, you’re only kidding yourself. It’s the best advertisement they never paid for. It’s no longer just an advertising slogan, someone has proved the production model of the car will do near as makes no difference 200 mph. Hellcat sales will jump dramatically.


53 posted on 08/19/2018 10:20:20 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: jjotto

He should’ve shouted “The pedal’s stuck! Unintended acceleration!” the whole time. I’ve also driven the Autobahn and never went over 160. I had my Harley over 100 and that was more than enough. Guess I’m a wuss.


54 posted on 08/19/2018 10:28:53 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: jjotto
Jefferson has a clean record except for a few traffic violations.

He's 22 years old and he's already received 'a few' traffic violations? That's a clean record? LOL

55 posted on 08/19/2018 10:32:09 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Teacher317

Nope, just the phone distraction. Don’t go from the specific to the general. Also, just my opinion. Clearly.


56 posted on 08/19/2018 10:33:29 AM PDT by Shoefus
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To: Shoefus

Put the car in a crusher because it has total disregard for the road? How about if they just don’t allow cars with that kind of power to be street legal? Exactly where, other than a track is it safe to drive these cars? I mean I really like powerful cars, and I really like the way they look, but come on the only reason this guy had that car(how the hell does a twenty two year old afford it) is because he had a small dick and an even smaller brain.


57 posted on 08/19/2018 10:41:04 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Celerity

Ha, I did the same. In addition to no roll cage I removed the seat belts, because I never used them. Didn’t occur to me the track would care lol


58 posted on 08/19/2018 10:45:50 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: jjotto

Willie might be a special courier raking in the Benjamins.


59 posted on 08/19/2018 10:52:49 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: jjotto

Back in the day, a friend of mine bought a Dodge Challenger because the seller showed him a speeding ticket he got for going 151 MPH.


60 posted on 08/19/2018 10:56:53 AM PDT by Zeneta
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