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Driver on learner's licence caught at 253kph on Adelaide's North-South Motorway, police say

A learner driver detected at 143 kilometres an hour above the speed limit in "one of the highest speeds ever captured" on South Australian roads was also allegedly on drugs at the time, police say.

The 20-year-old Smithfield man, was driving a black Holden ute on the North-South Motorway at Waterloo Corner in Adelaide's north on Monday evening.

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