TWO HARBORS, Minn. - Most of us have been a touch heavy on the gas pedal once or twice in our driving careers.

But 171 miles per hour?

A man driving a Chevy Camaro 2016 ISS was pulled over on Highway 61 near Two Harbors Friday after Hermantown Deputy Police Chief Shawn Padden clocked him doing 171 mph, then 168, then 143. Padden was helping the State Patrol with a DWI safety saturation campaign called "Toward Zero Deaths" at the time.

"When he went by me it was a blur. You get used to seeing people going 65 or 70 and what that looks like," Padden told the Duluth News Tribune. "But I've never seen anything like this. It's like a rocket on wheels at that point."

Padden tells the Tribune he had to get his Dodge Charger squad up to 135 mph just to get close enough so the driver of the speeding Camaro could see his emergency lights and pull over. The driver was ticketed for careless driving, and Minnesota law dictates that anyone busted doing more than 100 miles per hour can have their license revoked.