12 Oct 2026, Mon

Hellcat Hits 117 MPH In A Race With A Child Aboard

Image via Port St. Lucie Police Department/Facebook
Get The Auto Wire in your inbox
Driving news, policy watch and the auto industry’s biggest moves. Free, no spam.

With great power should come even greater responsibility, something we wish every performance car owner understood. If that were the case, we wouldn’t see incidents like a woman caught street racing a Dodge Charger Hellcat with an eight-year-old in the back.

Pushing the muscle car to 117 mph with a child aboard was staggeringly reckless. The episode put an innocent young life in serious danger.