Police have revealed the driver offered up the bizarre explanation after being clocked at almost twice the legal limit for the road in County Antrim
A driver clocked doing more than 135mph on a dual carriageway told police he was on his way to collect a Chinese takeaway.
Officers said the man behind the wheel, who has not been named, offered up the bizarre explanation after being clocked at almost twice the legal limit for the road.
The driver was stopped on the A26 Lisnevenagh Road in County Antrim on Saturday evening.
Writing on Facebook, the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s NI Road Policing and Safety unit said: “The drivers explanation . . . they were heading for Chinese takeaway!!”
The driver, who was behind the wheel of a red Mitubishi Evo, has been arrested and charged and now will have to go to court.
He has been warned he could face a possible driving ban.
“The Evo’s speed was measured along the A26 Lisnevenagh Rd and at times the vehicle was travelling in excess of 135 mph, this is nearly double the permitted speed for the A26 dual carriageway,” the police added.
A recent poll of 2,000 motorists revealed the ridiculous moments when drivers admit they are most likely to flout the speeding limit.
A total of 15% said they would put the pedal to the metal if they were desperate for the loo. But it’s not just toilet trouble that causes drivers to break the law.
A quarter of drivers confessed to regularly speeding, while nearly half admitted they’re more likely to bend the rules in areas they know well or when the roads are empty in the study commissioned by AXA Retail.
They found the top reasons for being happy to speed included a medical emergency, the roads being empty, running late for work and being desperate for the loo.
A recent thread on Reddit also detailed some funny excuses used for ignoring the speed limit, including “wanting to see how fast the car could go”, having explosive diarrhoea and blaming gravity while going down a hill.