A teenage driver was caught swerving via visitors on a Connecticut freeway at a staggering 132 mph — blaming it on being late for a job interview, in keeping with police who had to surrender the chase.
Azmir Djurkovic, 19, was clocked hitting the loopy velocity in a member of the family’s Mercedes E300 on the I-91 south in Hartford simply earlier than 9 a.m. Wednesday, Connecticut State Police mentioned.
When a Trooper gave chase with lights and sirens, the dashing driver “failed to stop and accelerated away while making unsafe lane changes and weaving in and out of traffic,” police mentioned.
“Due to the hazard posed to the public, the Trooper terminated attempts to stop the eluding vehicle,” the division mentioned.
When police contacted the automotive’s proprietor, they informed them the teenager was behind the wheel — and Djurkovic informed a Trooper who referred to as that he “did not stop because he was late for a job interview.”
It was unclear if he made the interview or landed the job.
Djurkovic surrendered to police later that day and was charged with a slew of visitors offenses, together with reckless driving, partaking police in a pursuit and reckless endangerment within the first diploma.
He was held on a $2,500 bond and can be arraigned in court docket on June seventeenth, information point out.
