{"id":68592,"date":"2020-01-14T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=68592"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:52:44","slug":"gm-employees-arrested-after-a-test-drive-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/gm-employees-arrested-after-a-test-drive-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Employees Arrested After a Test Drive Goes Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USATODAY- Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/embed\/video\/4458703002?placement=snow-embed\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two General Motors employees are in hot water today after their own form of a test drive turned into a double arrest. After taking two of the newest 2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingrays from the company\u2019s Bowling Green Corvette Assembly plant out for a joyride on the night of Jan. 8, both Alexander Thim and Mark Derkatz are sure to lose more than just their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kentucky State Troopers, both 27-year-old Thim and 30-year-old Derkatz were racing on an open street on Lovers Lane in Bowling Green when they were clocked going 100 and 120 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. After leaving a local pool hall, the two drivers headed to Lovers Lane and Olde Towne Boulevard with another Corvette driver in tow to proceed with their illegal street race.<\/p>\n<p>After being arrested for exceeding the posted 45-mph speed limit by more than 26 MPH, along with reckless driving and racing motor vehicles on a public road, the former design engineer and former co-chair of the electrical issue resolution team also lost access to the red Corvettes and white Stingrays they were driving.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comment, a representative from GM responded only with, &#8220;We are aware of an incident involving our test vehicles and are currently investigating. Safety remains our overriding priority at General Motors and we have no further comment at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers have been released on $1,000 bail and are scheduled for a pretrial hearing at Warren District Court on February 18. Stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/\">RacingJunk.com<\/a> as this story continues to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two General Motors employees are in hot water today after their own form of a test drive turned into a double arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":68593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,3699,5029,3034],"tags":[39,1619,67,2567,2731,41,2012,1911],"class_list":["post-68592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-racing","category-racing","category-videos","tag-chevrolet","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-gm","tag-illegal-street-racing","tag-laws","tag-news","tag-street-racing","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GM-Employees-Arrested_Feature-IMG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-hQk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68594,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68592\/revisions\/68594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}