Police officials in upstate New York issued 14 tickets to Anthony Anderson, 28, on May 30, one of them for speeding. He was going close to 200 mph in a 65 mph zone.

Sgt. William Lovely of Albany County noticed the speeding 2005 blue Suzuki heading south on Interstate 87 in the evening. It was raining. He alerted troops down the road, who clocked Anderson going 97 mph at mile marker 134 and 193 mph at mile marker 114.

Lovely said that police did not pursue Anderson because the department’s vehicles “do not go that fast.”

Police caught up to Anderson in Rosendale where a rainstorm stalled traffic. Anderson told the police that he was driving so fast because he was heading to a hospital near Poughkeepsie to see a patient.

Lovely said that in his 27 years on the force, he had never seen speeds that high on the road.

Earlier in May, a police stopped a motorcyclist on the same road going 166 mph.

Speeding is a factor in most fatal motorcycle accidents; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that 27 percent of motorcyclists killed in two-vehicle collisions were speeding at the time of the accident. If Anderson had collided with anything during his speeding trip, the results would have been catastrophic.

Always ride cautiously on motorcycles, especially in dark, rainy weather.

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