Posted on 12/03/2009 5:43:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson could lose his driver's license after police clocked him driving at 109 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a suburban Minneapolis highway last weekend.
Peterson told The Associated Press on Thursday that he "got a little speeding ticket. I need to be more aware of the speed I was going and not let it happen again."
Peterson was pulled over just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday while driving his BMW in a 55-mph zone on state Highway 62 — a normally busy stretch of road known as the Crosstown that connects Minneapolis with southern and western suburbs, Edina police spokeswoman Molly Anderson said. She said Peterson was given a citation and allowed to drive away after what appeared to be a "very routine" traffic stop.
Anderson said police clocked the 24-year-old Peterson going 109 mph, but Peterson told the AP he wasn't driving that fast.
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I thought that over 100 they yank your license....
I think they passed a law that could do just that in this case. The Vikes can afford limo service for AP, new stadium or not. ;-)
just kiddin'.
One of my wife's students just got pinched for driving in excess of 100mph. They arrested him for wanton disregard - a minor misdemeanor and I believe worth 4 points on your license whereas a DUI is worth 6, in my state.
Not if you live in Minneapolis and are a Vikings fan. That wouldn't be you, I take it.
Evidently he needed to get to Brett's house for re-runs of Benedict Arnold: American Traitor
I got stopped after being clocked at 118 in 1955 in a 55 4dr 235 hemi Dodge going up the Grapvine and the cop was nice and only wrote me for 85 and said that anything over that he would have to take me to jail.
I just finished going to traffic school in MN for going 65 in a 55 mph zone. You are correct, in the class the officer said any speed over 100 mph was a night in jail AND the loss of your license for 1 year. However please keep in mind the following critical mitigating factors....
1) Adrian Peterson is black
2) He is a celebrity black which earns instant status and is therefore "untouchable" in case Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson need to get involved in order to turn this into a racial incident, you white cop racist pig! sarc/
3) And did I mention he was black
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I will never understand the effect of arresting personalities fro traffic offenses.....pull them over, record the stop, warn them that their behavior is unacceptable and that a record hes been made of it....and then get on with life. I don’t want to see the mayor, governor, senator, major entertainer or athlete, headlined because he or she was driving too fast, cruised through a stop sign...etc. If they are duunk, different story, but let’s get back to the days when if you were an otherwise rtespponsible citizen, the authorities would cut you some slack....even to the extent of escorting you home.........been there, done that!!
Inquiring minds want to know: Was his car black?
As someone who has driven at 150, I don’t think its possible to go 100 on Crosstown without getting killed.
As the police report and eye witness accounts in the police report state, Tiger Woods was laying beside his car last Friday morning snoring. And yet, no one asks the FHP why a BAC or drug screen wasn't administered to Tiger as a result of his injury accident. Something, BTW, that Florida state law specifically allows in injury accidents without a search warrant.
If the same circumstances happened to anyone else - single car, low speed injury accident in the middle of the night with a non-responsive driver - it would be quite unlikely that a test wouldn't be performed, at least in my state. Adrian Peterson, LeBron James (who was also cited for excessive speed, but not arrersted) and Tiger all have at least one thing in common - just saying.
Through the typos I got the impression you don’t think celebrities should be arrested for driving offenses?
Would that be only celebrities? Because that’s the impression I got.
Deutschland, Deutscland ueber alles......
No doubt he got some special treatment, in part because of celebrity, and also in large part because it was in a very exclusive gated community. I would suspect most in Isleworth would get different treatment than someone in a random middle class neighborhood.
Clearly a case of not having enough car.
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