Street Racing Dodge Charger Crashes At 130 MPH While Fleeing Trooper

We already know street racers aren’t all that smart, but they supply a constant stream of reminders, like this Dodge Charger crashing while fleeing a South Carolina trooper. The driver, a 21-year-old woman, made one big mistake which sent the Mopar flying off the road, ending up on its roof in a salt marsh.

Suspect who led police on a chase ordered to pay $53,000 in restitution.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, March 9, the trooper spotted the muscle car racing a motorcycle in the Beaufort area, which is on the coast. However, when the trooper approached with his lights on, only the motorcycle stopped, reports The Island Packet.

The young Charger driver fled at speeds upwards of 130 mph as the trooper called for backup and gave chase. He eventually caught up with the Dodge and attempted a PIT maneuver, but it was unsuccessful.

Probably thinking she had smoked the trooper, the suspect driver kept blasting along an area road, apparently not realizing an infamous 90-degree turn in the road, called the Bellamy Curve, was coming up. That’s why the trooper slowed down.

By the time the trooper and deputies came to the curve, they found the Charger upside down in the marsh. The driver and her passenger were lucky because it wasn’t high tide, otherwise they could’ve drowned.

Once firefighters arrived and extricated the two, police could only interrogate the driver since the passenger had a face full of pluff mud, a nutrient-rich and rather thick mud found in the salt marshes, and couldn’t really talk.

Both the driver and passenger were taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries, which for the passenger included a punctured lung and fractured eye socket. Then the driver was arrested for street racing and failure to stop.

Finally able to speak, the passenger told police he fell asleep as the driver took him home, only to wake up during the chase. We can’t imagine he’s too happy with his street racing friend, considering he was the one who really got hurt all because she made two poor decisions in a row.

Image via City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department