A driver was stopped and arrested after Marietta police clocked their speed at 122 miles per hour on a local roadway.
🚨 Why It Matters: The extreme speed puts every driver, passenger, and pedestrian in the area at risk. At that velocity, a vehicle becomes nearly impossible to control in an emergency.
📸 What Happened: The Marietta Police Department shared a photo from inside a patrol vehicle showing a radar gun reading 122 mph. A brightly colored Dodge Challenger appears in the frame ahead of the officer’s vehicle on the highway.
⚖️ The Reality: Georgia law considers speeds of 85 mph or higher, or any speed 30 mph or more above the posted limit, as super speeder violations. These carry additional fines on top of standard speeding penalties.
At 122 mph, a vehicle travels the length of a football field in less than two seconds. Reaction time becomes meaningless. Stopping distance stretches beyond what most roads allow.
The Sources: Marietta Police Department.
B.T. Clark
B.T. Clark is an award-winning journalist and the Publisher of The Georgia Sun. He has 25 years of experience in journalism and served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta for 15 years and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc. for 8 years. His work has appeared in several newspapers throughout the state including Neighbor Newspapers, The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal. He is a Georgia native and a fifth-generation Georgian.
