Britain’s fastest speeder reached 172mph
Sep 24, 2007
Britain’s fastest convicted speeder was jailed for 10 weeks today after police caught him doing 172mph in a Porsche on a rural A-road.
Tim Brady, a delivery driver, became the fastest speeder ever caught by a British speed trap when he admitted one count of dangerous driving.
He had been at the wheel a £98,000 3.6-litre Porsche 911 Turbo when he was clocked by a constable holding a speed gun on the A420 near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, at nearly nearly two and a half times the 70mph limit.
The previous record for the fastest car clocked by a speed camera to result in a conviction was 156mph - in 2003 by Aberdeen car dealer Jason McAllister on the A90 between Aberdeen and Dundee.
The court heard Brady nagged his boss Bill Maclachan the previous day to let him take the sports car for a spin but was repeatedly told no.
