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A car traveling southbound on Interstate 5 near SeaTac passed a Washington State Patrol trooper at 156 mph.
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The vehicle was traveling “at an extremely high rate of speed” with “no lights,” according to the Washington State Patrol.
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WSP Trooper Rick Johnson said the vehicle was not found and there was no collision.
seattle – The Washington State Patrol shared video of a car traveling at 156 mph in foggy conditions in the SeaTac area on New Year’s Eve.
According to WSP Trooper Rick Johnson, just before 11 p.m. on Dec. 31, a trooper reported seeing a vehicle traveling southbound on Interstate 5 at a high rate of speed. Another officer then searched further for the car on the road near South 188th Street.
In the dashcam video shared by WSP on Wednesday, you can see the driver dash past the officer – almost completely invisible before the officer turns on his headlights.
Troopers measured the vehicle’s speed at 156 mph.
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“The vehicle has not been found and thankfully there was no collision,” WSP wrote in X post.
This is a developing story; please check back for updates.
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The information in this article comes from the Washington State Patrol District 2.