Teen clocked driving over 100 mph on Beaufort Co. highway, detained after police chase
A teen was recorded going 106 mph on a Beaufort-area highway before evading a policeman earlier this month, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. He faced multiple citations after being apprehended by the South Carolina Highway Patrol further down the road.
As a deputy traveled east on Trask Parkway around 10 p.m. Nov. 9, he spotted a speeding Ford Raptor truck passing in the opposite direction, according to an incident report. The officer’s Stalker radar recorded the vehicle going 106 mph — 46 mph over the 60 mph speed limit — but the driver reportedly slowed to 97 mph after seeing the patrol car.
The deputy pursued the Raptor with his blue lights and siren on but “had to travel in an excess of 100 miles per hour to try to catch up” as the truck accelerated, he noted. After the driver ran a red light at the highway’s intersection with Bruce K Smalls Drive and turned left onto Detour Road, the officer was ordered by his sergeant to terminate the chase.
Police radar recorded a teenager driving almost 50 mph over the speed limit on U.S. 21 (Trask Parkway) earlier this month. The teen and his mother faced a flurry of citations after the driver was apprehended by the South Carolina Highway patrol.
Responding to assist a SCHP trooper with a traffic stop on Detour Road a few minutes later, the deputy realized the stopped vehicle was the Raptor that had evaded him earlier, the report says. The driver was a juvenile whose name and exact age were redacted.
The teen was detained in the SCHP cruiser and cited for driving without a license, fleeing from police and speeding more than 25 mph over the limit. His mother arrived to the scene and told police she had given her son permission to drive the vehicle, which earned her a citation as well, according to the incident report. \
U.S. 21 was the site of 240 collisions in Beaufort County between 2020 and mid-2024, making it one of the most dangerous roadways in the area.
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