Whats the fastest anyone has been caught speeding?
The important thing to be clear about here is that speeding is both illegal and wrong. If the idea of a British speeding record were to gain currency, it would almost certainly end up killing people. Nevertheless, with the news that PC Mark Milton will today face a retrial for allegedly driving his new Vauxhall squad car at 159mph on the M54, it raises the question: has anyone ever gone faster on a British road? “To be brutally honest, we don’t know,” says Paul Watters at the AA. “I think it’s quite likely to be someone on an untraceable bike.” Preliminary investigations do indeed suggest that a bike was responsible for Britain’s worst recorded piece of speeding, although sadly for Andrew Osborne of Leamington Spa, it was not untraceable. In March 2003 he was clocked travelling at 157mph on his 1200cc Kawasaki on the A412 near Buckingham. It was said at the time to be the highest speed recorded by police and was reached while overtaking a lorry on a bend. At his trial four months later
