The former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been fined £999 by a court docket after being caught speeding twice in three weeks whereas driving his luxurious automobiles.
The 56-year-old was in a Porsche when he broke the pace restrict on 2 December final 12 months, and was caught out once more 20 days later whereas driving a Bentley.
West Mercia police introduced two prosecutions in opposition to Hammond, placing ahead the pace digital camera pictures of him driving the automobiles in Herefordshire to show the offences.
The presenter, who hosted Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May between 2002 and 2015, earlier than the trio launched The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime, pleaded responsible by means of his legal professionals to 2 fees of speeding.
At Telford magistrates court docket final week he was handed seven penalty factors for his licence. The Justice of the Peace, Ann Minton, ordered him to pay a complete of £1,771, comprising two fines of £333 and £666, £240 in prices and sufferer surcharges totalling £532.
Hammond, nicknamed The Hamster by his TV co-stars, almost died in a 320mph jet automobile crash in 2006 whereas filming Top Gear, and he and Clarkson acquired a three-month driving ban in France in 2013 after they have been caught speeding whereas making an episode of the present.
Documents from his court docket case present Hammond was caught by a police officer with a handheld pace digital camera simply earlier than 1pm on 2 December final 12 months.
His Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo was clocked at 68mph in a 50mph restrict on the A40 in Pencraig, Herefordshire.
At about 11.45am on 22 December, Hammond’s Bentley Continental GT was speeding at 82mph in a 70mph restrict on the A50 Rudhall overbridge in Herefordshire.
Police despatched speeding tickets to a Grade II*-listed Herefordshire fortress Hammond purchased in 2012 and a £1m farm property close to Hereford, however the letters have been returned marked as “addressee gone away”.
They tracked him all the way down to his £2m mansion close to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, the place it was famous greater than 30 autos are registered.
Police set out in court docket papers that Hammond had been accused of one other driving offence in August final 12 months.
Hammond was prosecuted for two offences of speeding and two additional allegations that he had ignored the police letters and did not determine himself because the responsible driver.
