A MOTORIST allegedly caught driving a Porsche at 155 miles per hour along a Dorset bypass this week may be the fastest reported in the county.

If the driver is convicted of the offence, it is likely to be the highest speed ever recorded by Dorset police.

Officers from Dorset Police’s No Excuse team say they made the motorist pull over on the A35 Puddletown bypass on Tuesday night as reported in yesterday’s Echo. The speed limit along the stretch is 70mph.

The driver is due to appear before the courts in the coming weeks.

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“That speed is unacceptable anywhere other than a race track in the UK,” an officer from the No Excuse team said.

Currently, the fastest speed recorded on a Dorset road was when Brendan John Matthews, 28 and of Wyke Road, Weymouth, was allegedly clocked by police travelling at 152mph on the A35 at Puddletown.

However, when Matthews appeared at court, he accepted a maximum speed of 140mph. He received an 18 week suspended prison sentence.

A number of motorists have been convicted of driving at high speeds on the bypass. Gabriel Butnariu was caught driving at 110mph on the stretch on May 5 last year.

The 24-year-old, of St George’s Road in East London, was banned from driving, fined £1,000 and ordered to pay a surcharge and costs.

In October, Timothy Hubbard, of Haycrafts Lane, Swanage, was convicted of riding his Kawasaki motorbike on the bypass at 101mph on April 26 last year. The 22-year-old was sentenced to a fine and costs. His driving record was also endorsed with six points.

Matthew Stanbury, 28, was convicted of driving a BMW at 101mph on the bypass in September 2018. Stanbury, of Wimborne Road West, Wimborne, was caught on May 10 that year. He was fined, ordered to pay costs and given six points.

Nationally, in 2015, Shaun Davis, 42, of Woodpecker Drive, Northampton, was jailed for 28 months after he filmed himself driving at 192mph on roads in the area.

It is thought to be the highest speed recorded on UK roads.

Dorset Police list speeding as one of the ‘fatal five’, a list of actions a driver can take that make a collision more likely.