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LEHI — The driver of a car was arrested Thursday after traveling an estimated 110 mph on the freeway, only to be passed by a motorcycle going over 140 mph, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
The incident happened just after midnight on southbound I-15 near Point of the Mountain. A UHP trooper reported noticing a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle approaching at very high rates of speed.
"My radar's pitch got very high and I got a fast reading of 141 mph. I also got a reading of 110 mph. I advised dispatch that the motorcycle was going 141 mph and the car 110 mph," a police booking affidavit states. "The two vehicles were next to each other traveling at these extreme speeds with loud vehicle sounds emitting."
The trooper was able to pull over the car while the motorcycle exited the freeway in Lehi. The 32-year-old driver of the car was immediately placed in handcuffs.
"He stated to me that the motorcycle passed him and that he was not racing," the trooper noted. "It did appear that the motorcycle did pass him at some point during the incident. The passenger vehicle was still traveling at extreme speeds over 105 mph."
The man was booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of reckless driving and exhibition driving on a highway. The search for the motorcyclist continued Thursday.
