A driver caught speeding in a Porsche had allegedly been travelling at more than double the speed limit, police have said.

The driver was pulled over on the A35 Puddletown bypass between 9pm and 10pm last night by traffic officers.

The legal speed limit for this road is 70mph.

According to the Dorset Police No Excuse team, the individual was alleged to have been driving at 155mph and is being reported to court. 

"That speed is unacceptable anywhere other than a race track in the UK", a spokesman for Dorset Police said.

Last year, the Dorset Echo reported how an east London man, Gabriel Butnariu, was banned for four months after being caught speeding at 110mph on the Puddletown Bypass on May 5 2018. 

And in 2012, we reported how police "watched in disbelief" as they clocked Weymouth yacht skipper Brendan John Matthews doing 152 mph along the Puddletown Bypass with his father in the passenger seat.

The No Excuse road safety campaign is an attempt to reduce the numbers killed and seriously injured on roads throughout Dorset.

The team is deployed to areas where the public have expressed concerns, to areas of high collisions and to areas identified through analysis as being of particular risk.

Education and enforcement efforts are directed at tackling the ‘fatal five’: drink and drug driving, not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, driver distractions and careless driving.