Northern Irish comedian Patrick Kielty has revealed he once held the record for committing the worst speeding offence in Northern Ireland. The TV and radio presenter admitted that he was once caught driving at 132 mph on a road out of Belfast.
The Co Down funnyman shared the story on the Adrian Flux podcast 'Fuelling Around' where he shared he was a car fanatic but admits he’s been all too guilty of having a heavy right foot at times. Kielty was clocked doing almost double the speed limit in an Alfa Romeo GTV in the 1990s.
Speaking on the podcast, he said: "I ended up getting caught doing the highest recorded speed on a Northern Ireland road which, at that stage, was 132(mph) I think. This has to be 25 years ago. We’re still kind of talking pre-ceasefire Northern Ireland.
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"In terms of what was taking up court time, speeding kind of wasn’t."
He continued: "It was a lovely summer’s evening. It was about eight o’clock, there just wasn’t a car on the motorway. Coming out of Belfast I just eased round this corner and there was nothing there.
"I had a straight in front of me and I just kept putting my foot down. I didn’t really know how fast the car was and I suddenly looked and just went ‘wow, wow’. There was a car behind me and I’m thinking ‘what’s he in? He must want a race.’
"Turns out that was an unmarked police car. The idea of stupidity, new car and speed; it was a hefty, hefty fine and I just about got away with the books. A lesson learned lads, a lesson learned."
The father-of-two and husband of Cat Deeley famously went on to escape a driving ban in 2008 despite being clocked doing over 100mph in Scotland.
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