Nick Hogan's Life in the Fast Lane

Not even some close encounters with Florida's finest were able to put the brakes on Nick Hogan's speed racing.

The 17-year-old, who costarred on the reality show Hogan Knows Best with his wrestling superstar father, Hulk Hogan, and narrowly averted death following a high-speed crash last month, apparently assumed Alligator Alley was his own personal track, with authorities confirming Friday that he was stopped for speeding twice on the same day last year.

According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Doug Dodson, the younger Hogan, whose real name is Nick Bollea, was clocked driving a black Mercedes over 100 mph in a 70 mph zone in September 2006.

After being pulled over on the desolate stretch of freeway, carved through the swampland of the Everglades and bridging both coasts on Florida's southern tip, Hogan told the trooper he had a "family emergency" to attend to back home in Clearwater, on the Gulf of Mexico side of the state. The officer cut Hogan a break and ordered him to slow down.

"He was issued a stern warning at first," Dodson told E! Online. "But the officer then radioed a second trooper 19 miles down the road."

During that conversation, the second trooper caught sight of the Mercedes zooming by and pulled him over going even faster—115 mph in a 70 mph zone, said Dodson. The officer subsequently issued the teen a citation in the amount of $305.

Hogan's checkered driving past has been in the spotlight since an Aug. 26 car crash on a four-lane highway in downtown Clearwater where he lost control of his dad's yellow Toyota Supra sports car. The vehicle jumped a raised median and careened into a palm tree.

Hogan and his front-seat passenger, John Graziano, a 22-year-old Marine who served a tour of duty in Iraq, had to be extricated from the vehicle by firefighters and were transported by helicopter to Bayfront Medical Center in nearby St. Petersburg.

The teenager sustained non-life-threatening injuries, including a broken arm, broken ribs and neck and knee damage. He was treated and released the next day. Graziano, however, remains in critical condition, reportedly in a coma, and may have suffered brain damage due to swelling of his brain.

Dodson added that the first patrolman didn't recognize Hogan at first, but became aware of his celebrity by the time he gave the warning. Dodson noted that the officer has a lot of latitude when it comes to issuing speeding tickets and acted within the law by letting the youngster off.

Per court records, the ticket was adjudicated and no points were assessed to the teen's record. Dodson said that's because Hogan may have attended driving school or a similar program.

If that's the case, apparently he didn't learn much.

Before his horrific car wreck, Hogan boasted about his speed-demon day in an interview with Rides magazine, saying he was able to talk his way out of a ticket—he claims three times—while driving from Miami to Clearwater. He attributed his escape to his newfound fame via the VH1 reality series.

"The guy let me off," he told the publication about his first stop. "He's like, 'Hey, I know who you are. Just keep going, ya know.' "

The teen said the second instance occurred further down the road, when he was driving 113 mph, and he quoted the second trooper as saying, "Hey, I just heard on the radio that my buddy pulled you over and let you go. I'ma [sic] let you go this time. It's your second warning. You get pulled over again, you're probably going to jail."

Hogan claimed he was stopped again three minutes later and he recalled that trooper telling him, "Hey, I just heard you got pulled over twice in the last 10 minutes. I got to write you a ticket."

Dodson noted that his office only recorded Hogan being pulled over twice.

Hogan's speeding history also includes a ticket he received in February after getting clocked going 57 mph in a 30 mph zone in Miami, and an April citation for driving 106 mph in a 70 mph zone in Osceola County. In the latter incident, he ended up being convicted and had four points added to his driving record.

And Hogan—a self-professed adrenaline junky who has expressed a love for the fast and furious world of drift racing—may very well add to that.

Two weeks before the crash, he was busted on Aug. 10 for zipping down a highway that was under construction at 82 mph and not wearing a seat belt. A hearing in the matter originally scheduled for Sept. 19 has been pushed back until Dec. 14.

Clearwater Police have refused to comment on their investigation into the accident, except to note that Hogan was driving at a "high rate of speed" when it occurred.

Local reports have quoted numerous eyewitnesses accounts stating that Bollea's Toyota was racing a Dodge Viper before his vehicle went into a tailspin.

For his part, Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, told TV's The Insider that he came upon the scene of the wreck a few minutes later on his way to meet his son and Graziano at a local restaurant.

The former pro grappler vehemently defended Nick from what he said was an "unfair" portrayal of Nick in the media, pointing out that in his opinion, "from all the eyewitnesses and everyone that was there and saw it...they were not racing."