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150-mph Mustang

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With lives at stake, Colorado Troopers call off chase with 150 mph Mustang
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It wasn’t a newer Shelby or Bullitt speeding outside Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on Friday, March 30, however.

Colorado State Patrol Troopers clocked a “dark-colored, older-model Mustang” at 140 mph at 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, The Denver Post reports.

Unable to read the license plate on the car traveling on Interstate 70, the troopers turned on lights and sirens in hot pursuit, State Patrol spokesperson Trooper Gary Cooper told the newspaper. Dangerous curves on I-70 follow the Colorado River in the area.

Rather than pull over when the chase cars lit up, or even ease back on speed, the Mustang driver accelerated to 150 mph. At that point, when they realized they couldn’t catch the car, the troopers quit the chase in the interest of safety, theirs, the Mustang driver’s, and any other drivers on the highway at the time.
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Footnote - In the 1970s, they had hot chaser vehicles around Denver area
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