After half an hour of tearing down the highway at three-digit speeds, Snipes crashed his motorcycle on an exit ramp near Jupiter, Florida. The chase was so fast and furious that the patrol car just behind him didn't even have time to stop and it slammed into Snipes' toppled bike; the impact even caused the officer's air bag to deploy. Snipes had been thrown from the bike, but surprisingly received no severe injuries. He even refused medical care.
According to The Palm Beach Post, the officer got out of his patrol car and aimed his pistol at the famous actor.
"Don't know you know who I am?" Snipes reportedly asked the officer, who replied, "I don't care who you are. Get on the ground!"
The actor's publicist later said that Snipes, an Orlando native, had been visiting family and was returning to Key Largo, where he was filming the action flick Drop Zone. Snipes claimed that he was unaware that several patrol cars and helicopters were chasing him, and he was just pulling off the highway to get some gas when his bike went down. As for that baseball-sized object he allegedly tossed into the shoulder midway through the chase, police dogs sniffed out a three-ounce package of marijuana wrapped in tape, but it was never proven that it was the object Snipes threw. He was charged with reckless driving and given a punishment fitting for an actor.
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