Florida teen in BMW was going 151 mph before crash that killed 6

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Florida teen in BMW was going 151 mph before crash that killed 6
The 18-year-old posted a video of himself driving 182 mph two weeks before the deadly crash, according to court documents.

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Florida teen in BMW was going 151 mph before crash that killed 6

Published: Apr. 21, 2022, 10:23 a.m.

By Tribune News Service
By Wells Dusenbury, South Florida Sun Sentinel (TNS)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two weeks before a teen was involved in a 151 mph crash that killed six people in West Delray, he was going even faster in his luxury car on Interstate 95 — reaching speeds of 182 mph, authorities say in newly released court documents. ... The 18-year-old, Noah Galle, posted a video of himself in his BMW M5 driving 182 mph on I-95 earlier in the month before the deadly Jan. 28 crash, according to a sheriff’s criminal probable cause affidavit.

The new court documents portray Galle as a driver who tends to drive more than 100 mph beyond the speed limit and who boasts about it on social media. Galle, who was arrested on April 6, faces six counts of vehicular homicide in the West Delray crash. ... During the investigation into the crash, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said it received a tip from a person who had recorded Galle’s videos on Instagram and TikTok in which “he recorded himself driving at an extremely high rate of speed.”

A search warrant for Galle’s Instagram account revealed Galle had filmed himself driving 182 mph on Interstate 95 past the Gateway Beach Boulevard overpass two weeks before the crash, the probable cause affidavit said. Investigators confirmed it was the same BMW driven in the crash due to the dashboard and instrument panel configuration shown in the video.

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A standard 2019 BMW M5 is electronically limited to 155 mph, but the competition model allows the vehicle to reach 189 mph, according to a BMW dealer website. The BMW M5 competition model is priced at just under $111,000. The sheriff’s report doesn’t specify which type of BMW Galle had. ... The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office officially charged Galle, 18, on Monday with six counts of vehicular homicide in the Jan. 28 crash that killed six workers who were leaving their jobs at Pero Family Farms. Each count is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

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