<VV> In The News - Cops nab man driving 98 mph in a classic '65 Chevy Corvair

[Marc Sheridan]

Here is the link to the article with a picture of the driver, but not the
car.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1649225,6_1_NA02_EGIZIO_S1-090702.article

Marc Sheridan

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Scott Morehead <moreheadscott at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Cops nab man driving 98 mph in a classic '65 Chevy Corvair
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> July 2, 2009
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> By BILL
> BIRD wbird at scn1.com
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> A Bolingbrook man who has received at least 14 traffic tickets since 1982
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> including one less than four months ago for speeding in a construction zone
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> has yet another court date pending, this time for allegedly driving his
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> car at nearly 100 mph on a busy Naperville thoroughfare.
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> Rocco M. Egizio, 48, will return to DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton,
> this time on a Class A misdemeanor charge of driving 40 mph or more over
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> posted speed limit.
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> Naperville police Cmdr. Mike Anders said Egizio was arrested at 11:53 p.m.
> Monday in his 1965 Chevrolet Corvair. A police patrol car's radar unit
> clocked
> him driving at 98 mph on a section of 75th Street where the speed limit is
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> Anders said the traffic stop occurred as Egizio was driving east on 75th
> Street and approaching Modaff Road, in the central part of the city.
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> The speed limit on 75th Street between Modaff Road on the west and
> approximately Bell Drive to the east was recently reduced to 35 mph because
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> the intersection widening project at 75th and Washington streets. Egizio's
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> had not yet entered the construction zone when it was curbed by police.
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> Anders said Egizio was alone at the time, and offered no reason for his
> driving when questioned by police. No one was injured, and there were no
> reports of other vehicles being struck or forced off the roadway by
> Egizio's
> car, he said.
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> Records on file in the DuPage County courthouse showed Egizio has been
> ticketed 14 times over the past 27 years in traffic-related matters.
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> His most recent citation was issued March 5, when Naperville police charged
> him with speeding in a construction zone. Court records did not indicate
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> that infraction occurred.
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> On March 30, Egizio pleaded guilty to the charge. He was placed on court
> supervision and assessed fines and legal costs, according to records.
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