Mitch Daniels stopped for speeding. No ticket?

A Purdue University police officer performed a routine traffic stop on an unlikely subject last week.

Dashcam video posted to YouTube Wednesday shows a police officer stop President Mitch Daniels for driving 42 mph in a 20 mph speed zone. The video indicates the traffic stop occurred just before 8 a.m. Oct. 20.

In the video, Daniels appears to be heading west on Third Street in West Lafayette when the officer begins following. Daniels then rolled through the stop sign at McCormick Road, prompting the officer to turn on her lights. Daniels pulled over into the drive leading to Westwood Manor and opened his door as the officer approached.

"Do you know why I stopped you?" the officer asked.

"I don't know," Daniels said. "Too fast at the stop sign, or — "

"No, you were like 42 in a 20," she said.

"I left my phone here, I've got a call coming at 8 o'clock," Daniels said. "I know it, I'm sorry."

"It's fine," she said. "I'm going to let you go."

Daniels was not issued a ticket or written warning nor asked for his driver's license and registration.

A tweet from Daniels' official Twitter account on Oct. 22 thanked Purdue University Police Department for its alertness.

"(I have) nothing to add to what I said at the time," Daniels said in an email from Mumbai, India, where he's visiting to strengthen partnerships with Purdue. "I was in the wrong. The circumstances were one of a kind, but making no excuse."

Purdue police Capt. Eric Chin wasn't available for comment Wednesday.