PORSCHE SPEEDER JAILED FOR TEN WEEKS
Posted 24th September, 2007 in Porsche | 1 Comment
Britain’s fastest speeder (in a car) has been jailed for ten weeks. Timothy Brady, 33, of Harrow, was driving a brand new Porsche 911 Turbo along the A420 at Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, when police officers clocked him doing 172mph.
Judge David Morton Jack gave Brady a three-year driving ban and ordered him to pay £474 costs. He said: “Your driving was criminally self-indulgent and utterly thoughtless of the danger you might be creating for the innocent.” The court heard that when stopped by the policeman Brady said: “Oh s***, oh s***, I’ve lost my job.”
The previous speeding record (in a car), 156 mph, was set by a Scottish car dealer who was jailed for five months after he was detected doing 156 mph in his BMW M3. The fastest convicted speeder was Daniel Nicks, 34, who was caught doing 175mph on a Honda bike in Herts in 2000 after filming himself. He was jailed for six weeks and banned for two years.
[Source: BBC]
1. 25th September, 2007 at 13:06 by German 911 driver
Stupid non sense, to imprison someone for fast driving. I drive faster than that with my 911 at least once a week; and I have been doing so for years. It is perfectly save. That judge sould have a look at the German Autobahn death statistics - much lower than in speed-limited countries! Thank God is legal here.