YouTube speeding driver - in pictures
An 18-year-old man was today banned from driving after video footage of him "showing off" at high speeds was highlighted by the Shropshire Star.
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Michael James Hughes, of Falcons Court, Much Wenlock, handed himself in to police after the Shropshire Star published images of him driving between Shrewsbury and Telford in January.
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The YouTube video showed Hughes driving from the Column area of Shrewsbury to Tesco in Telford in just 10 minutes.
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Stephen Scully, representing Hughes in court, said: "It is an offence of the modern age - now you have trial by YouTube and the Press. He accepts what he did on this occasion was wrong. I would describe it as youthful immaturity." See also:
