A man who ran over 1600 km for about 17 hours on a test drive

When buying a car, I think that there is a case where you try to ride a neighborhood of the shop for only a few minutes in order to confirm the ride comfort, but it seems that there was a man who kept trying over 1,600 km or more if it made a distance for about 17 hours.

It is a hard time to say a test drive when it is over 17 hours, but this man was arrested for various crimes.

Details are from the following.
Aleh Kot of West Springfield held in Wisconsin as suspect following 1,000-mile 'test drive' | Breaking News - MassLive.com - - MassLive.com

Aleh Kot: Man Takes Car On 1,000-Mile Test Drive; Kidnaps Salesman

According to this article, Aleh Kot (32 years old) visited the car test drive at a shop in Honda in West Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 15th local time. Kot suspectsAccord(Sedan) and start a test drive with the salesman at 1 pm. Although it seems that salesman told the salesperson to return to the store after a while trying, Kot suspects that he kept driving without going back to the store.

After that, I entered the toll road "Massachusetts · Turnpike" crossing the state of Massachusetts, running in the west at 125 mph (speed of about 200 km / h) while holding a salesman. However, as traffic jams occurred near the West Stockbridge toll and the speed dropped, the salesman took off from the car and escaped.

Kot suspect.


The store of West Springfield that Kot suspects visited.


After that, Kot suspect traveled to the west without a break. A police officer who was patrolling Kot suspects driving at a speed much higher than the prescribed speed near Janesville in Wisconsin early in the morning of the next morning found out and was caught with speed at 4:20 am is. In the subsequent investigation, it was said that the crime of theft and kidnapping was also imposed.

This is a map showing the distance Kot suspects tried. Traveling time is 16 hours 41 minutes, mileage is 1008 miles (about 1622 km).


Despite trying this much, Kot suspects are not planning to buy a car, but he does not know where he was heading for a test car.

You can see the news taken up by this incident from the following.
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