A young 19-year-old driver from South Dakota (USA) has gotten into quite a mess after being caught driving at 190 km/h on a highwayin northeast Nebraska, whose speed limit is set at 100 km/h. When he was stopped, his excuse was that he was in a hurry because he “needed to buy fried chicken.”
Fortunately, he did not cause any incidents, but he did endanger other drivers by driving at almost twice the speed limit. Now the craving will cost him dearly, but perhaps not as much as it should: his urge to eat some fried chicken fingers is accompanied by a fine for reckless driving and an increase in insurance premiums.
The new “king of fried chicken” is in the US
The last Sunday, a Stanton County Sheriff’s Office agent (USA) pulled over a vehicle traveling at 120 mph on a highway southeast of Norfolk. The driver, identified as 19-year-old Ariz Zarate-Gonzalez, told the officer “he was in a hurry to get home” but wanted to stop at Raising Cane’s for chicken fingers first. The speed limit was 60 mph.
Interestingly, “high speeds in and of themselves are not considered reckless driving by default, no matter how fast you are, under Nebraska law,” Sheriff Mike Unger said in a statement. The law “requires dangerous behavior in addition to” speeding to qualify as reckless driving.
An approach that can sometimes lead to confusion about what is or is not reckless driving on the road. Thus, unlike in other states, in Nebraska, the fine for reckless driving is up to $100 (91.50 euros) and the fine for speeding more than 55 km/h over the limit is $300 (about 275 euros).
In addition to fines for reckless driving and speeding, the young driver also will face a drastic increase in their car insurance premiums.
In comparison, if a driver commits the same offence in Spain, it can be considered a crime against road safety. Sheriff Unger, who stressed that “driving at such extremely high speeds puts everyone at unjustified risk”, also recalled that, At these speeds “an average driver has no time to react” in the event of any unforeseen event or normal traffic situation.
Cane’s chicken fingers and sauce may be delicious, and we don’t deny that sometimes cravings are hard to suppress, but fried chicken fingers will never be worth the effort of driving, putting others at risk, or incurring hundreds of euros in fines and exorbitant insurance premiums.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
