By Steven Symes 
The old NASCAR saying of “drive it like you stole it” sure seems to apply in this chase involving a suspect in a Ford Mustang fleeing Florida Highway Patrol in Miami traffic. After all, the guy doesn’t seem to care what damage might be done to the pony car’s mechanicals, tires, wheels, body, or anything else as he flogs it hard to get away.
FHP has a new C8 Corvette in its fleet now.
As you can see in the included dashcam video of the chase, what originally sparked it was the trooper seeing the Mustang being driven recklessly. After the trooper turns on his lights and sirens, then gets behind the pony car, the suspect doesn’t even fake pulling over and instead uses the shoulder to get around the fairly heavy traffic.
It’s a chase full of countless close calls from there. Multiple times all the lanes on State Road 826 are occupied, so the Mustang driver uses the shoulders on both sides to keep going as fast as he wants.
He pushes the Mustang to beyond 120 mph, narrowly missing innocent bystanders as he weaves through the much slower traffic. Just one miscalculation and the ensuing crash would be catastrophic.
Of course, during the chase hardly anyone moves out of the way for the trooper as his lights and sirens are going. We’ve noticed this is a problem in different parts of the country, but Florida seems to be one of the worst. Why is that?
Unable to shake the trooper on the highway, our suspect gets off and blows the red light at the bottom of the exit ramp. With heavy cross traffic, it’s one of the dumbest moves we’ve seen in a while, and that’s really saying something.
The Mustang is T-boned by some poor person just trying to get somewhere, bringing the chase to a sudden, violent end. With the pony car flipped onto its roof, the suspect gets dragged out by the trooper and an off-duty cop who witnessed the crash.
But our suspect doesn’t just give up. He tries fighting the law enforcement officers, gets tased, then allegedly tries bribing a trooper. There’s no mention in the report of the Mustang being stolen, so we’re going to assume it wasn’t and the guy just didn’t care that much about it.
Image via Scooper/YouTube
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