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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (CBS12) — A team of sheriff's deputies "conducting an operation regarding illegal street racing" had their work cut out for them when one of the cars almost hit one of them, rammed his SUV, and led authorities on a chase. It all went down last Saturday night, Nov. 19, in Palm Beach Gardens and at one point flew by at 76 mph above the speed limit. Authorities followed "a group of vehicles to numerous locations” and eventually to Alternate A1A near Lighthouse Drive. According to the arrest report, “In excess of 100 vehicles entered the parking...

ATLANTA — Early Sunday morning, another group of street racers stopped traffic at the 10th Street and Piedmont Road intersection so they could burn rubber on top of Atlanta’s “Rainbow Crosswalk”. They cleared the area before Atlanta police arrived but left more damage at the busy intersection just a few days after it had been cleaned up. Atlanta Police are offering a $2,000 reward for anyone with information on the street racers who have been disrupting Atlanta’s streets and leaving damage at one of the City’s better known landmarks. Last Sunday morning, APD responded to reports of street racers doing...

Cheyenne Avenue and Commerce Street in North Las Vegas reopened early Sunday, nearly 12 hours after a motorist blew through a red light and caused “a mass casualty traffic collision” that killed nine people, police said. The driver was going “north of” 80 miles per hour at the time of the crash, Clark County Office of Traffic Safety director Andrew Bennett told the Review-Journal.

A Florida Highway Patrol officer is in hot water after video showing him apparently racing a Lamborghini Aventador with his police car hit Instagram this week. Shot from the inside of a second Aventador, it shows the Dodge Charger patrol car and the Italian supercar with New York tags cruising along next to each other before the drivers hit their accelerators and pull away. The Lamborghini predictably leaves the Dodge in the dust. The exact location of the race has not been revealed, but the FHP knows who the trooper is and is considering if disciplinary action is necessary.

Anaheim police Friday released new video of a suspected vehicle involved in a fiery street-racing crash that authorities say killed two 19-year-old men and inflicted life-threatening injuries on another victim, hoping it would generate new leads in the case.The new surveillance video shows a tow truck driver near the scene, so investigators are hoping to track down that driver as a witness only, said Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt. The video shows the other car suspected of taking part in the street racing to be a black Ford Mustang, not red as earlier reported.The Mustang’s driver fled the scene of...

The Los Angeles Police Department has gone and got themselves a Lamborghini. With a starting price of $182,000, the 2014 Lamborghini Gallardo is the latest edition to the LAPD's fleet of vehicles, complete with traditional black and white paint and 'To Protect and to Serve' written on the sides, according to NBC Los Angeles. And in the land of high-speed pursuits, what better way to catch those bandits flying down the 101, right? Wrong.

Australia's drag racing association says the Victorian Government must bear some responsibility for fuelling the frustrating of motor sports fans, following a riot in Melbourne's south-east. Last night, about 2,000 people took to the streets of Oakleigh to protest against the cancellation of the Easternats car racing event. They were targeting Bob Jane, the tyre company that sponsored the event. Easternats organisers say Bob Jane cancelled the event after failing to finalise contract negotiations. Police say the peaceful gathering turned ugly after some people in the group started smashing the windows of a tyre dealership and setting off flares. Police...

SALEM — The driver of a minivan who was seriously injured when she was struck head-on by a drag-racing teenager doing 81 mph is now being sued by the teenager's passenger, who was also injured. A lawsuit filed yesterday in Salem Superior Court suggests that Christine Speliotis "carelessly and negligent (sic) failed to avoid the collision with the other vehicle head on." The lawsuit was filed by the father of Brandon Pereira, 17, of Peabody, the cousin of Timothy Pereira, the driver of the speeding Ford Mustang. Timothy Pereira, 19, of Salem is out on bail awaiting trial on charges...

I may be overly sensitive on this subject but my first reaction is that these victims of a Maryland street-racing incident were unlucky, undeserving and incredibly foolish: “A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight people and injuring at least five, police said. Police said the white sedan was not involved in the street race but accidentally drove into the crowd of about 50 people that had spilled onto the highway to watch two racing cars speed off. *** According to police, two cars had lined...

NEWPORT BEACH – A grieving mother stood up in court today and told the reckless driver who killed her 14-year-old daughter in a high-speed crash in 2004 that "the pain only gets worse with time, not better…It's too much to bare sometimes." Pointing to photos of daughter Brianna Moore, Karen Dayyat wept and said the hardest and worst day of her life was when she put flowers on Brianna's grave on her 16th birthday. "You did this," she yelled at defendant James Dean Ericsson, 23, of Culver City. "You wrecked our lives...There is no bringing Brianna back. You have caused...

Nick Ut / AP Manuel Hernandez reacts after his car and other impounded vehicles were crushed at Ecology Auto Parts in Rialto, Calif., on Wednesday.Southern California authorities crack down on illegal hot rods, street racingRIALTO, Calif. - Charles Hoang winced when the whoosh went out of the tires. Daniel Maldonado took pictures with a digital camera as glass exploded and rained down to the ground. The cars the teens had so meticulously souped up and tricked out were crushed Wednesday as part of a crackdown on illegal street racing in Southern California. "That's my heart, my dream," said Hoang,...

Professional golfer Arjun S. Atwal extended condolences but denied responsibility Sunday in the death of a Windermere businessman killed in what authorities said was an apparent street race between the two men. A prepared statement issued Sunday night by Atwal's manager said the golfer "cannot fathom the unimaginable pain" Saturday night's accident caused the family of John Noah Park, 48, who died after losing control of his car and slamming into a tree. LocalLinks Both Atwal and Park, who ran a video-production company, lived in Windermere. But the two men did not know each other, according to Atwal's manager. "We...

School Bus Driver Arrested For Street Racing Against Her Son POSTED: 7:01 am EDT April 11, 2005 ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Osceola County school bus driver was arrested over the weekend for street racing. Deputies arrested Christine Illgen early Sunday morning during a sting on Rocket Boulevard in Orange County. Deputies arrested Illgen, 44, early Sunday morning after they caught her racing against her 17-year-old son. He was just given a ticket, but Illgen has a lot more to lose. The Osceola County School District removed her from her duties and brought in a substitute bus driver to take...

Street racer ploughs into crowdBy Josh Massoud and Gemma Jones February 07, 2005 Busted ... police subdue a suspect. Picture: Bill Hearne An angry mob of drag racers turned on police after an illegal street racer careered into a crowd of spectators in Sydney last night. Up to 30 people lay injured on the road and footpath as punches were thrown and officers shoved. Dozens of police raced to the scene in South Strathfield to help bring the 50-strong crowd under control. One of the first officers to arrive at the scene radioed for urgent back up, telling the radio...

New law levies harsher penalties for illegal racing By Andrea Ball AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, January 23, 2004 An Austin man accused of instigating a drag race in which his co-worker was killed is facing criminal charges under a new state law that levies harsher penalties for illegal racing. Richard Carrasquillo, 22, was charged Wednesday with racing on a highway. He is accused of starting a street race Saturday during which 19-year-old Alexander Vasquez crashed into a utility pole. This is the first time the Austin Police Department has filed felony racing charges since the law was enacted Sept. 1. The...

Is America Promoting Street Racing? The latest plague to hit home in the US isn’t SARS or Smallpox. It’s something that has actually been around for quite a while now but hasn’t been toggled with. I’m talking about Street Racing. Parents all over America are sobbing over the loss of their child because of a car accident, but I’m not talking about your usual accident on the highway that took someone’s life. I’m talking about you going 120+ MPH on your local ¼ mile straight shot street. To make it worse, just these high speed racers aren’t dying, there are...