An early morning fast food run was more expensive than he bargained for when a Tarneit man was clocked by police travelling at 186km/h in a 100km/h zone in Laverton last Friday.
Highway patrol officers spotted the 28-year-old’s Proton hatch speeding on the Princes Freeway about 2.15am.
Police spokeswoman Belle Nolan said the man’s excuse for driving 86km/h over the speed limit was that he was hurrying to get a burger.
“Brimbank highway patrol officers could have been forgiven for thinking they were looking at a low-flying plane when they spotted the 28-year-old’s Proton hatch flying down the Princess freeway,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman said. “Needless to say, officers were less than impressed by the excuse.”
The man’s car was immediately impounded for 30 days and the driver is to be charged with speeding offences and driving while suspended.
The incident came a week after a driver clocked travelling at twice the limit in Altona Meadows told police he was in a hurry to get to a toilet.
Hobsons Bay highway patrol officers clocked a 36-year-old Altona Meadows man travelling at 136km/h in a 60km/h section of Central Avenue on Australia Day eve.
Leading Senior Constable Norman Macdonald said that when the driver was intercepted, his excuse was: “I was dying for a shit.”
“We actually escorted him home and had him leave the car out the front in the street and he was allowed to go to the toilet,” the officer said, noting the man had already passed several service stations and could have stopped at any one of them to use their facilities.
