Ask enough police officers about the wildest thing they’ve seen on the road, and you’ll get some answers that make you double-check your own speedometer. These are the triple-digit, “you could lose your license and your freedom” moments. The type where the traffic ticket isn’t the biggest problem: the survival odds are.

One police officer recalled pulling over a Dodge Challenger doing 162 mph in a 65

The driver wasn’t just speeding. They were drunk.

Another remembered clocking a motorist at 135 in a 55, with a child in the back seat. 

In both cases, officers said the drivers actually stopped when pulled over. That might be the only wise decision they made that day.

High-end sports cars showed up in the stories, too

A Lamborghini driver in some kind of rally got caught at 125 mph. He got honked at by his own pack as he was pulled over.

Another officer clocked a brand-new Corvette at 142 mph on Thanksgiving morning. The driver, in his 60s, said he just wanted to see what the car could do while the roads were empty. That stop ended with a reduced ticket, but not much sympathy for the judgment call.

Some of the most jaw-dropping numbers came from police outside the United States

One officer in a metric-using country stopped a young driver doing 200 km/h in a 70 zone. That’s about 124 mph. The twist: the driver was drunk and in his mom’s Porsche.

Another reported a 16-year-old pushing 168 km/h in a 60, showing off for his girlfriend.

Then there were the repeat offenders

One driver was caught at 124 in a 65…their third high-speed stop by the same officer in a year. 

Another incident ended before a ticket could be written when a driver doing an estimated 160 mph outran a police Crown Victoria, only to crash in the next county.

Some stops even had a touch of dark humor

One police officer said his favorite was a driver caught at 88 mph, who got asked if he was “trying to go back to the future.”

The thread, posted on the Reddit “Ask law enforcement” sub, r/AskLE, is a mix of adrenaline, disbelief, and hard reminders that the road isn’t a racetrack. Of course, every one of these police stops could have ended in tragedy, and in many cases, the drivers were lucky the worst they got was a ticket.