Police: Driver gets to nearly 140 mph on I-95 in Maine

SIDNEY, Maine (AP) — Police say a driver who said he normally doesn’t speed accelerated to nearly 140 miles an hour on Interstate 95 in Maine after another vehicle came up “right on his tail.”

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Sang Yook, of New Jersey, told state police he had been doing 75 miles an hour on June 6 in Sidney when the vehicle appeared behind him. State police caught him on radar driving nearly twice the 70-mile-an-hour speed limit.

They said Yook’s BMW slowed rapidly upon seeing a cruiser, and pulled over. Police said the 65-year-old Yook got out of his car to ask for a break and refused to get back inside.

Police said Yook, jailed after he couldn’t make bail, pleaded guilty to speeding. He was fined $300.

Yook didn’t immediately return a message left on his New Jersey phone number Thursday.