[ArmstedFragg]

I wonder how much faster he was going than the cop car he was following?

I'm not sure 'following' is the right word. What usually happens is you're driving along at the speed limit and you see some clown come screaming up behind you. Since people are normally reluctant to speed while they're in the vicinity of a cop car, the first thing you wonder is whether the guy's drunk, fleeing frome something, or just stupid. You pull over, let him go by, then pull in behind him and clock him. That's what you witnessed at the beginning of the tape. There's another version of that routine, which involves exiting at an off ramp, letting the guy go buy, then getting right back on again. They're both time-proven techniques.

"Following" would imply that the guy was just doing what the cop was doing and the cop set him up. I suppose at some point in the history of man that's happened, but it's pretty unusual.

[kjam22]

We can't tell.... he may have been catching up quickly with the cop when the cop pulled over. It didn't look like he was really zipping when he went by the cop. He didn't have his brake lights on when he went by. He looked like was just putting along to me. But you're right, he may have been catching him quickly and slowed down at the last moment. Clearly he wasn't driving that fast in the 40 zone, unless the sign we see is just a reposting of the existing speed limit.