Denver Broncos sack specialist Von Miller is fast around offensive linemen, but he’s even faster on the road, as attested by a long string of speeding tickets he has accrued despite a vow to curb his “pedal to the medal” habit.
On Monday, the 29-year-old linebacker attended an Arapahoe County District Court hearing on a misdemeanor count of driving up to 39 miles per hour above the speed limit, according to court records.
It was at least his fifth traffic speeding or traffic ticket dating back five years and second speeding ticket in 2018, according to Colorado court records. Miller was cited on May 15 for speeding in Arapahoe County and on June 19 for speeding in Denver. Both cases are pending.
Miller’s vow in 2013 to curb his speeding hasn’t worked out well.
“With speeding — I’ve had a trouble with the pedal to the metal. I’m working to try to fix that too,” Miller said in an October 2013 interview with The Denver Post.
Miller’s penchant for speeding was compounded in 2013 when he failed to appear in court for a hearing. In the newspaper interview at the time, Miller blamed the oversight on procrastination. The speeding he blamed on immaturity. “I will say this: I’ve always had a driver’s license.”
“I understand I have to be on top of all this stuff. The constant battle with procrastination is what it all boils down to. If you get a speeding ticket, you have to stay on top of it,” he said in 2013.
But that wasn’t even the first time he missed a court hearing for speeding.
He had missed a traffic hearing in Orange County, California in 2012 and several others in the Denver metro area in 2012.
Miller was nearly two hours late on Oct. 28, 2013 for an Arapahoe County Court hearing, but he eventually arrived and pleaded guilty to minor traffic offenses.
Miller has also previously been hampered by substance abuse issues.
In 2013, he served a six-game NFL suspension for violating its drug policy after testing positive for marijuana in 2011 as a rookie. The NFL had increased Miller’s original four-game suspension to six games because it thought he tried to cheat the system by working with a specimen collector who accepted a fraudulent sample.
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