Here’s a sentence you don’t get to write every day: a man driving a Lamborghini got pulled over for doing 137 mph, and somehow that’s not even the most surprising part of the story. The most surprising part is that in Orange County, Florida, this kind of thing has become common enough that the Sheriff’s Office has an entire unit dedicated to catching it.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared video this week of its Motors Unit stopping a driver clocked at 137 mph, a speed that will get you slapped with an arrest rather than just a ticket under Florida’s Super Speeder law. The footage shows the pursuit, the traffic stop, and the arrest, all wrapped up with the department’s now-familiar message that they intend to keep cracking down on excessive speeding.
If you’re not familiar with Florida’s Super Speeder law, it’s worth a quick explanation, because it’s not your average speeding ticket. Since it took effect in the summer of 2025, anyone caught driving 100 mph or more, or 50 mph over the posted limit, faces mandatory arrest and a trip to jail rather than a citation and a stern talking-to. It’s a significant departure from how speeding has traditionally been handled, and it’s changed the calculus for a lot of drivers who thought a fast car and an empty highway were a harmless combination.
And look, we get the appeal. A Lamborghini practically begs to be driven with some enthusiasm. That’s the whole point of the thing. But 137 mph on a public road isn’t spirited driving, it’s a genuine hazard to everyone else out there, and Florida’s deputies clearly aren’t in a forgiving mood about it these days.
A Year of Super Speeder Arrests
Since the law’s first anniversary, Orange County’s Sheriff’s Office has reported 323 arrests under the law in its first year, with the fastest recorded speed among those cases hitting 150 mph. So this Lamborghini driver, as fast as he was going, still wasn’t the record holder.
That title apparently belongs to someone else entirely, which honestly says a lot about the roads out there lately.
This isn’t the first time a high-end sports car has ended up in the Super Speeder headlines either. Just months earlier, deputies caught a driver in a rented Lamborghini doing 107 mph near Port Canaveral, and an Olympic sprinter was pulled over doing 104 mph in an Aston Martin. There’s a pattern forming here, and it’s not a flattering one for exotic car owners.
Why Deputies Aren’t Cutting Anyone Slack
The law was written specifically to remove discretion from these situations. A citation used to be a matter of an officer’s judgment. Now, if the numbers hit triple digits or 50 over, the outcome is basically automatic.
Deputies have made that clear in stop after stop, regardless of what’s parked in the driveway back home.
A Fast Car Is Still Just a Car
Comments were on the Lambo’s side. One driver said: “I mean, isn’t that what a Lamborghini is supposed to do?”
A Lamborghini can hit those speeds without breaking a sweat, sure, but that’s true of plenty of cars these days. The difference is what happens after the needle gets there, and in Orange County right now, that difference is jail.