An accused super speeder doing up to 114 mph on Interstate 95 in Palm Coast was apparently in a hurry to catch a flight to Israel.
But Boaz Sinuani’s flight wasn’t departing from anywhere in Central Florida, even the sunshine state itself. It was in New York.
A Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy interrupted Sinuani’s race to catch his plane on Tuesday, Jan. 20, just after noon, according to a report.
“I’m going to New York,” Sinuani said.
“You’re going to be late,” the deputy told him.
Sinuani told the deputy, incorrectly, that in Israel there were no speed limit.
“Yeah, but this isn’t Israel. We have speed limits,” the deputy said. “You can’t drive like that.”
Sinuani, 63, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged under Florida’s super speeder law, which took effect last summer.
The law makes it a misdemeanor to drive over the speed limit by 50 mph or more, or to drive at 100 mph or more “in a manner that threatens the safety of other persons or property or interferes with the operation of any vehicle.”
Sinuani’s arrest recalled another notable super speeder case in Flagler: that of a man going 107 in a Chevrolet Corvette who said he was on his way to get a haircut.
In Sinuani’s case, the deputy was on traffic enforcement duty when he spotted the gray Honda sedan driven by Sinuani heading north at 97 mph at the 284 mile marker on the interstate, according to the deputy’s radar.
Speedy driver was in no hurry to pull over.
The deputy switched on his marked patrol vehicle’s lights and sirens and caught up to Sinuani in what the Sheriff’s Office said was a rented Honda Accord.
But Sinuani was apparently in no hurry to pull over. Sinuani drove on for a minute and a half before coming to a stop, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Sinuani was slowed down by traffic at the 293 mile marker northbound exit and then pulled over, a report stated.
His rented Honda was towed.
Sinuani showed the deputy a foreign driver’s license, and there was nothing wrong with that, Sheriff Rick Staly stated in a press release.
“While it is completely legal for a tourist to drive in Florida using their country’s driver’s license, they must obey all of Florida’s traffic laws or suffer the consequences,” Staly stated in the release.
Sinuani, who had started his drive in Miami, got a detour to the Flagler County jail, where he was booked and released on a $150 bond.
And a quick check on the internet found several sources that said Israel does indeed have speed limits.
The Sheriff’s Office calculated that it would have taken Sinuani 13 hours to reach New York at an average speed of 110 mph.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Super speeder in Palm Coast says he has flight to catch in New York
Reporting by Frank Fernandez, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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