Speeding car film on internet

A father-of-four who used his mobile phone to capture footage of an Audi car racing through his Shropshire estate at about 60mph has posted the film on YouTube.

Stuart Parr, 31, was so frustrated there was no possibility of tracing the culprit he decided to publicise the brief footage in the hope that someone would know who they were. Mr Parr, of Briarwood, Brookside, Telford, reported the incident to police.

But he was told that as the registration of the offending car is not recognisable and as there was no definite evidence of its speed on the film there was little they could do.

Mr Parr said: "I was on the pavement with two of my children when the car came racing past.

"I grabbed my phone and filmed it and managed to capture about five seconds of footage.

"Sadly, it was travelling so fast that the video didn't capture the number plate.

"It's a 30mph limit in the area and there are speed bumps in the road.

"If he'd hit one at an angle he could have been killed or he could have run someone down and killed them."

Chris Ammonds, Telford police spokesman, confirmed the incident on March 26 had been reported to officers.

"Two white males were said to have been in the car, one of them wearing a woolly hat," he said.

"Officers attended the scene about an hour after the report, but it was not possible to make out the car's registration number from the video footage."

Mr Parr's actions came to light just days after 18-year-old Michael James Hughes was banned from driving after video footage of him "showing off" at high speeds and taking his hands off the steering wheel while driving in Shropshire was posted on YouTube.

Hughes, of Falcons Court, Much Wenlock, was banned for 28 days and ordered to pay £225 after he admitted careless driving between September 1 and September 30.

By Simon Hardy