WILTON – An attempted traffic stop for speeding Sunday turned into a court summons for a local teenager, officer Bob Cole said.

Cole said Monday that he received a call just after 4 p.m Sunday of a speeding car with a loud exhaust on Route 133.

“When I came upon the vehicle, when I turned on the siren and lights, he sped off,” Cole said.

In an approximately 7 mile chase, the 17-year-old Wilton teen and his two younger passengers, both from Jay, were traveling in a vehicle at between 55 and 60 miles per hour along 133, onto Route 155, up Zion’s Hill Road and onto the Beesson Pit Road, Cole said. The driving parked the vehicle and ran off into the woods with the passengers, he said.

County and state police were called to help, and a few minutes later the 17-year-old and two 15-year-olds gave themselves up, the officer said.

“They weren’t arrested, because they were juveniles,” he said.

Instead, the driver was summoned on charges of eluding an officer, failure to stop for an officer, and illegal attachment of plates. “He (the driver) just says he panicked,” Cole said.