You won’t believe what this man blames his speeding on
A British man tried to get out of a jail term for speeding by claiming his dog, a bull terrier named Buster, sat on his accelerator and caused him to drive at a high speed of nearly 160km/h in a 50km/h zone.
The man was spotted by a police officer in a town in the Durham county, in October last year. Footage played in the Durham Crown Court this week shows the police car clocked 142km/h in attempt to catch up to him.
Breaking News reported that the man’s Volvo was caught braking hard and making a sharp right turn, barely missing an oncoming vehicle. He stopped just over a kilometre from the point the chase began.
The violator told the police officer that Buster was jumping around in the vehicle and got stuck in the footwell of his car. He admitted to dangerous driving, but said it only happened because the dog was sitting on the accelerator.
“You advanced an utterly ludicrous account on which you were to insist for over a year,” said the judge during the sentencing.
”Your driving was extremely dangerous and it is just a matter of pure good fortune that nobody was seriously injured or killed during what was, I am quite sure, a police pursuit,” the judge continued.
The driver was later sentenced to 13-months imprisonment.