“For the driver to blaze through a small town in the sticks with a speed limit of 25, “
He did not go through small towns.
“He did not go through small towns.”
If he didn’t, he didn’t travel the fast enough ways, if there are any, to accomplish the speeds he had to have used to accomplish the time.
There are only a couple ways to get into Redondo Beach, alone. One is I-10 coming from Las Vegas into east LA, another is I-5 either from Bakersfield or San Diego, or the highway 1 that could support that speed if there were no chippes, traffic, or on loading traffic, which there are on each. Coming from the east and trying to get through 10 through Riverside and/or San Bernadino, and shooting 91 west into Redondo Beach, I can promise you is impossible even at night to reach those speeds.
Raised down there, know those roads. And I sincerely doubt he could have made up the lost time going across LA to average that speed and time over the other parts of the country he traveled. And there are towns not even on the map out there that have speed limits and eyeing cops. And the Nevada Highway Patrol is all over 10 in Nevada with the chippies picking it up in California east of Blythe. No one could get a sneeze through there into Redondo at those speeds.
rwood