GIBSONTON, Florida — A traffic stop on a dark Hillsborough County road has become one of the clearest illustrations yet of Florida's Super Speeder law in action. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has released body-camera footage of a November 13 stop in Gibsonton, the unincorporated community south of Tampa, in which deputies say a car driven by Julian Andres Camacho Pachon, 26, was clocked at 156 miles per hour in a zone posted at 55 mph.

Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office body-camera release

That reading is 101 mph over the posted limit — nearly three times the legal speed. In the footage, as reported by Guessing Headlights from the sheriff's release and covered by FOX 13 Tampa Bay and WFLA, the deputy asks the driver whether he was dealing with an emergency. Camacho Pachon said he was not. His explanation, captured on the deputy's camera, was three words: 'It's my bad.'

Source: Guessing Headlights, Nov. 14

What the video shows — and what it does not settle

The nighttime footage shows a dark-coloured Audi sedan. Reporting on the stop notes the car appears to be from Audi's A5 Sportback family, but the exact model has not been confirmed by the sheriff's office, and viewers online have argued about whether a stock car of that type could reach 156 mph at all — several performance Audis are electronically limited to about 155 mph. That argument does not change the charge: the allegation rests on the deputies' speed reading, and the reading, the vehicle and the circumstances are matters the court process, not social media, will test. The reports describe a traffic stop and an arrest; they do not describe any crash or injury connected with it.

The law he was arrested under

Camacho Pachon was arrested under Florida's Super Speeder law, which makes extreme speeding a criminal offence rather than a traffic ticket. Under the law, driving at 100 mph or more, or at 50 mph or more above the posted limit, is a crime. The statute took effect on July 1, 2025, and Florida troopers and deputies have been arresting drivers under it across the state since then. On the deputies' account, this stop cleared both thresholds at once: the speed was above 100 mph, and it was more than double the 50-over threshold.

The penalties rise with repeat offences. As FOX 13 has reported in its coverage of the law, a first Super Speeder offence can bring up to 30 days in jail, a fine of up to $500, or both, with higher penalties for drivers who are caught again. The charge against Camacho Pachon is an allegation: he has not been convicted, and he is presumed innocent unless the state proves the case in court.

Why a 156 mph reading alarms the Tampa Bay trucking corridor

Gibsonton sits in southern Hillsborough County, between Tampa and Riverview, in a part of the county crossed by the highways that feed Port Tampa Bay and the warehouse districts along the Interstate 75 and U.S. 41 corridors. Those roads carry heavy truck traffic day and night, including many Punjabi-American owner-operators and fleet drivers who run Florida freight. At 156 mph, a car covers about 229 feet every second — a closing speed at which a truck driver changing lanes, or a family pulling out of a side street, has effectively no time to react. That is the danger the Super Speeder law was written against, and it is why sheriff's offices publicise these stops with the footage attached.

Background: a law built for exactly this argument

Before the Super Speeder law, a driver caught at extreme speed in Florida could face a large fine and points, and reckless-driving charges were a judgement call. The 2025 law removed the ambiguity at the top end: cross 100 mph, or double-plus the margin over the limit, and the stop becomes an arrest. State and county agencies have since publicised a steady run of such arrests — a Mustang at 154 mph on Interstate 4, an Infiniti at 148 mph — and each release makes the same point the Gibsonton footage makes: the camera is running, the reading is recorded, and 'it's my bad' is not a defence, only an admission that there was no emergency.

What happens next

The case now moves into the Hillsborough County court process, where the state will have to prove the speed reading and the circumstances of the stop, and where Camacho Pachon can contest them. The sheriff's office has not announced any additional charges in connection with the stop in the reporting available so far. For drivers watching the footage, the practical lesson is the one deputies state in the release itself: in Florida, extreme speed is no longer priced as a ticket. It is booked as a crime.