“Florida man” stories are a source of endless entertainment. But some of the state’s more reckless motorists are learning the hard way now that the “super speeder” law is enforceable. In one of the most recent cases, police arrested a 20-year-old Dodge Challenger motorist for driving 155 mph on a Sunshine State highway.  

Florida drivers are learning about a new speeding law the hard way, like a young driver arrested for going 95 mph over the limit

20-year-old Octavius Hunt probably shouldn’t have been behind the wheel of a Dodge Challenger. At upper specs, the brutish muscle car could hit 199 or more mph. Not a great car for a bad idea-prone, inexperienced driver.

When police caught Hunt on radar, he was driving at an eye-watering 155 mph. While that kind of speed happens on certain stretches of the Autobahn in Germany, there’s no stretch of American road that gets remotely close to that huge figure.

Of course, stopping a vehicle traveling at 155 mph isn’t an easy task. After all, even the HEMI V8-powered Dodge Charger police cars will top out at around 152 mph. As a result, police used patrol vehicles to block and slow Hunt’s Mopar muscle car.

According to FOX 35 Orlando, Hunt had three passengers in the car at the time. Interestingly enough, he told police that he thought he was traveling at around 80 mph at the time. The truth was a very different scenario.

The part of Interstate 4 where police observed Hunt recklessly speeding was a 60 mph zone. That means Hunt exceeded the speed limit by a staggering 95 mph. Unfortunately for the young motorist, that puts him well into the criteria for Florida’s new “super speeder” law. 

The new ‘super speeder’ law will send drivers to jail for anything above 100 mph, and oftentimes less

The new Florida speeding law too effect at midnight on July 1st, 2025. According to the new law, motorists can receive criminal charges, not just a speeding citation, for exceeding 100 mph at any time.

It’s not just triple-digit speeds, either. Drivers will end up in handcuffs if they exceed the posted speed limit by 50 mph at any time. To be fair, it’s extremely dangerous to drive at 85 mph in a 35 mph zone.

In Hunt’s case, exceeding the speed limit by 95 mph with passengers on board could be grounds for serious charges, like reckless driving or criminal negligence. And FHP seemed less-than-impressed with the Challenger’s highway speeds. “Putting lives at risk to impress others is dangerous and criminal,” FHP posted on social media.