Over the past few days, WZQZ has reported the arrest of two different people charged with being a “super speeder”.  It isn’t a charge that is seen every day on the arrest report and some have asked, “what exactly is a super speeder?”.

The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GGOHS) defines a super speeder as “any driver convicted of speeding at 75-or-more on any two-lane roads…OR convicted of speeding at 85-and-over anywhere in Georgia”.  The law is designed to get tough on high-risk drivers who endanger other motorists and ignore warnings to slow down. On average, there’s a speed-related death-a-day in Georgia, according to the GGOHS.

Money collected from fines from Georgia’s super speeder law is used for the state’s trauma centers.

Over the past weekend, two people were arrested and charged with being a super speeder in Chattooga County: twenty-two-year-old Jared Hardin and twenty-eight-year-old Destiny Wright.