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Shocking viewer video shows a state trooper flying down Highway 321 in Catawba County going the wrong way into oncoming traffic.
The witness told Channel 9 that the trooper was heading to a major street racing bust.
WSOC-TV Channel 9 Charlotte first reported about the street racing arrests at 11 p.m. Sunday.
The state trooper got off the River Road exit crossed this bridge and then started heading south in the northbound lanes.
Dave Faherty spoke to the woman who recorded the video, and she is outraged by the incredibly dangerous maneuver.
"Just freaked out,” Carisa Lynn said. “It was crazy. It was very dangerous."
State troopers said they received numerous calls of the drivers endangering others along the four-lane highway but Lynn believes the state trooper put more people at risk.
"Street racing isn't what you should be doing, but it was more reckless in my opinion of the police officer to be driving the way he was driving, in general, to pull over some people racing,” Lynn said.
Channel 9 has learned there were as many as 10 BMWs involved in the traffic stop. The Highway Patrol has impounded five of those vehicles.
The charges include pre-arranged speed racing, careless and reckless driving and impeding traffic.
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