We used to live in Lancaster before moving over here. A bunch of us used to fly R/C airplanes in the field ouside of Kershaw where they eventually built the Carolina Motorsports Park. My great friend and Training counterpart at the mill in SC sent me this, email entitled, "You Will Love This."
The third from the last sentence in the story, "...Performance Driving SCHOOL.....", I sure hope we was trying to get there in time to TEACH it!
Go directly to jail at 137 mph
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Man in Mustang flashes from Lancaster to Kershaw in 7 minutes
By Greg Summers
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:00 am (Updated: October 21, 2:00 am) A Fort Mill man in a muscular Mustang traversed 16 miles between Lancaster and Kershaw in seven minutes Sunday morning before being arrested.
Do the math. That’s averaging 137 mph.
Robert William Sherengo, 61, was charged with driving 100 mph in a 55-mph zone by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office. The Lancaster Police Department charged him with failure to stop for blue lights and reckless driving.
Deputies finally got him to stop on North Matson Street in Kershaw. His green 2013 Ford Boss 302 Mustang bore the S.C. license plate BOSSMAN. He was wearing an auto-racing suit.
Sherengo told deputies he was speeding because he was late for a driver’s meeting at Carolina Motorsports Park.
“We are glad Mr. Sherengo stopped and cooperated with our deputies when he stopped,” said sheriff’s spokesman Doug Barfield. “He was going so fast that nobody could’ve gotten turned around on him without going outrageous speeds, which we are not going to do under those circumstances.”
Lancaster city police officer Tim Witherspoon first saw Sherengo speeding through the intersection of S.C. 9 Bypass East and Clinton Avenue near McDonald’s about 7:31 a.m.
A Lancaster Police Department incident report said Sherengo passed Witherspoon’s marked police car going a least 100 mph in a 45-mph zone. Witherspoon hit the blue lights and chased the Mustang to the Pageland Highway overpass, but lost sight of it there.
Witherspoon alerted county deputies to be on the lookout for the car, which was headed south toward Heath Springs. The S.C. Highway Patrol was also notified.
A deputy patrolling on Kershaw Camden Highway in the Elgin community saw the Mustang flash past, but did not have a radar unit to record the speed.
At 7:38 a.m., Deputy Christopher Williams clocked the Mustang at 100 in a 55-mph zone on Kershaw Camden Highway near the entrance to Andrew Jackson High School.
Williams turned around to follow the car but didn’t activate his blue lights for safety reasons.
“I did not have any intention of traveling excess speeds faster than the Mustang was doing so I could catch up to it,” Williams wrote in the incident report.
Williams also radioed two county deputies and the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office to watch for the car, the report said.
The driver slowed down when he veered right onto North Matson Street, but was still speeding. Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Thomas, who was also on North Matson, turned his blue lights on and the Mustang finally pulled over near the Richland Street intersection.
Williams, who clocked Sherengo near the high school entrance, arrived and showed Thomas the locked radar display in his police car. Sherengo, the report said, walked over to see the radar display, too.
The report said Sherengo “advised deputies that he had just left Fort Mill and was late for a driver’s meeting at Carolina Motorsports Park,” which is about 4 miles south of Kershaw on U.S. 521.
Built in 1998 at the site of a World War II pilot training base, Carolina Motorsports Park is a 2.2-mile, 14-turn road course. The track hosts events sanctioned by several racing organizations, including the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and the National Auto Sports Association (NASA). The track is also leased by NASCAR and Champ Car teams for testing and hosts several driving schools.
According to its website, the road course hosted the 16th Annual Carolina Regional Mustang Club Performance Driving School on Oct. 15-16.
Sherengo was arrested, handcuffed and searched.
The report said a Sherengo admitted his guilt, apologized and told deputies that “he was running late for a high performance driving school event at the motorsports park” and “claimed to have never seen the law enforcement officer he passed.”
He was taken to the Lancaster County Detention Center, booked and jailed.
He was released Monday after posting bonds totaling $1,852.50.
The third from the last sentence in the story, "...Performance Driving SCHOOL.....", I sure hope we was trying to get there in time to TEACH it!
Go directly to jail at 137 mph
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Man in Mustang flashes from Lancaster to Kershaw in 7 minutes
By Greg Summers
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:00 am (Updated: October 21, 2:00 am) A Fort Mill man in a muscular Mustang traversed 16 miles between Lancaster and Kershaw in seven minutes Sunday morning before being arrested.
Do the math. That’s averaging 137 mph.
Robert William Sherengo, 61, was charged with driving 100 mph in a 55-mph zone by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office. The Lancaster Police Department charged him with failure to stop for blue lights and reckless driving.
Deputies finally got him to stop on North Matson Street in Kershaw. His green 2013 Ford Boss 302 Mustang bore the S.C. license plate BOSSMAN. He was wearing an auto-racing suit.
Sherengo told deputies he was speeding because he was late for a driver’s meeting at Carolina Motorsports Park.
“We are glad Mr. Sherengo stopped and cooperated with our deputies when he stopped,” said sheriff’s spokesman Doug Barfield. “He was going so fast that nobody could’ve gotten turned around on him without going outrageous speeds, which we are not going to do under those circumstances.”
Lancaster city police officer Tim Witherspoon first saw Sherengo speeding through the intersection of S.C. 9 Bypass East and Clinton Avenue near McDonald’s about 7:31 a.m.
A Lancaster Police Department incident report said Sherengo passed Witherspoon’s marked police car going a least 100 mph in a 45-mph zone. Witherspoon hit the blue lights and chased the Mustang to the Pageland Highway overpass, but lost sight of it there.
Witherspoon alerted county deputies to be on the lookout for the car, which was headed south toward Heath Springs. The S.C. Highway Patrol was also notified.
A deputy patrolling on Kershaw Camden Highway in the Elgin community saw the Mustang flash past, but did not have a radar unit to record the speed.
At 7:38 a.m., Deputy Christopher Williams clocked the Mustang at 100 in a 55-mph zone on Kershaw Camden Highway near the entrance to Andrew Jackson High School.
Williams turned around to follow the car but didn’t activate his blue lights for safety reasons.
“I did not have any intention of traveling excess speeds faster than the Mustang was doing so I could catch up to it,” Williams wrote in the incident report.
Williams also radioed two county deputies and the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office to watch for the car, the report said.
The driver slowed down when he veered right onto North Matson Street, but was still speeding. Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Thomas, who was also on North Matson, turned his blue lights on and the Mustang finally pulled over near the Richland Street intersection.
Williams, who clocked Sherengo near the high school entrance, arrived and showed Thomas the locked radar display in his police car. Sherengo, the report said, walked over to see the radar display, too.
The report said Sherengo “advised deputies that he had just left Fort Mill and was late for a driver’s meeting at Carolina Motorsports Park,” which is about 4 miles south of Kershaw on U.S. 521.
Built in 1998 at the site of a World War II pilot training base, Carolina Motorsports Park is a 2.2-mile, 14-turn road course. The track hosts events sanctioned by several racing organizations, including the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and the National Auto Sports Association (NASA). The track is also leased by NASCAR and Champ Car teams for testing and hosts several driving schools.
According to its website, the road course hosted the 16th Annual Carolina Regional Mustang Club Performance Driving School on Oct. 15-16.
Sherengo was arrested, handcuffed and searched.
The report said a Sherengo admitted his guilt, apologized and told deputies that “he was running late for a high performance driving school event at the motorsports park” and “claimed to have never seen the law enforcement officer he passed.”
He was taken to the Lancaster County Detention Center, booked and jailed.
He was released Monday after posting bonds totaling $1,852.50.
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