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Troopers saw two vehicles going as fast as 123 mph in a 55-mph zone on SR-82 near 40th Street SW just before midnight on Jan. 20. One of the cars, a Honda Accord, was stopped, and the driver, 21-year-old Ricardo Domingo Pascual of Immokalee, was arrested. He faces charges of reckless driving, racing on highways, and driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two days later, on Jan. 22, troopers saw a Chevrolet Camaro speeding down SR-82, doing 91 mph in a 55-mph zone near Sunshine Boulevard. Troopers say the car drove into a ditch after FHP attempted a traffic stop, and the driver fled.<\/p>\n\n\n
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On Jan. 24, troopers located the driver, Joshua Anthony Robles, 33, of Lehigh Acres, and placed him under arrest. He faces charges of leaving the scene of a crash, fraud\/making a false statement, reckless driving, obstruction, and a probation violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FHP is using these two cases as an example for all motorists to abide by posted speed limits. Reckless driving and racing are both arrestable offenses and are extremely dangerous for the drivers involved and all other road users in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo hold someone accountable through an arrest, that\u2019s a win because, again, we\u2019re trying to deter that behavior,\u201d said Lt. Greg Bueno with FHP. \u201cThere is an aggressiveness, a lack of patience, trying to outdistance each other\u2026 we have seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s about saving your life; it\u2019s about saving you from going to prison if you kill someone,\u201d said safety advocate Lili Trujillo-Puckett. \u201cYou lose control. You\u2019re not a professional racer. You don\u2019t know how to control speed\u2026 you\u2019re going so fast there\u2019s no way you can stop. You can kill someone or kill yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a tough crime to catch, but now it\u2019s easier to punish after a new law went into effect in October, allowing law enforcement to arrest street racers for videos they post on social media or anywhere else online. Those charged are subject to enhanced penalties, including license suspensions, increased fines, stiffer penalties if a serious injury or death is involved, and vehicle impoundment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Florida Highway Patrol reminds drivers of the dangers and consequences of reckless driving and street racing following two recent arrests of people caught driving dangerously on Lee County roads.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2106,2107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56987,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981\/revisions\/56987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Camaro-Photo-1-1024x768-1.jpg\")
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