Steve Coogan escapes driving ban despite speeding at 97mph after plea

Steve Coogan has swerved a driving prohibition for speeding astatine 97mph aft telling a justice it could pb to the axe of his question bid The Trip with Rob Brydon.

The Alan Partridge star, 59, wrote a missive to Birmingham Magistrates Court aft helium was charged with speeding successful a Range Rover connected the M6 adjacent the junction for Telford connected July 29.

In it, Coogan – who already has six points connected his licence – begged the tribunal to enforce a punishment of 5 points truthful helium would stay nether the threshold for an automatic six-month driving ban.

The Brian and Maggie histrion said a driving disqualification would effect successful the cancellation of his upcoming TV projects, which includes The Trip and a BBC amusement And Did Those Feet… with Alan Partridge.

Coogan’s missive said according to the Daily Mail: ‘I person a bid of important movie commitments scheduled for 2025, galore of which impact driving arsenic a cardinal constituent of the work.

‘I americium owed to look successful a well-established TV bid called The Trip (with Rob Brydon) which arsenic the rubric suggests requires maine to drive.

‘This starts filming towards the extremity of June 2025 and if I were incapable to drive, the accumulation would apt beryllium incapable to proceed.’

In the letter, Coogan besides noted the existent points connected his licence were owed to expire successful August and shared his vexation the lawsuit took six months to beryllium heard.

After entering a blameworthy plea, the Night astatine the Museum histrion was handed 5 punishment points – 1 abbreviated of a prohibition – and ordered to wage a £2,500 fine, £90 costs and a £1,000 unfortunate surcharge.

He was besides banned from driving for 2 months alternatively of six enabling him to proceed with the accumulation of his TV projects.

In 2019, Coogan dodged different driving ban aft claiming it would forestall him from being capable to movie his caller Alan Partridge series.

Coogan was caught driving his Porsche astatine 36mph successful a 30mph portion adjacent to his £4million mansion successful Halland, East Sussex.

The comedian was clocked connected January 8 by an automatic camera connected the A22 Eastbourne Road and faced a three-point endorsement connected his driving licence.

At the time, the motoring enthusiast already had 9 points from erstwhile motoring offences and a further 3 points would mean helium would person 12 points and look an automatic six-month prohibition nether the totting-up procedure.

Magistrates successful Crawley decided to manus him a two-month driving prohibition aft proceeding a sixth-month prohibition would unit him to cancel an Alan Partridge travelogue tv show.

Ann Schroder, seat of the magistrates bench, said they had taken into relationship the ‘exceptional hardship’ it would origin different TV professionals if the bid had to beryllium cancelled.

Coogan admitted his driving grounds was not bully but claimed helium has present taken steps to change his behaviour.

He said: ‘I’m trying to dilatory down and I effort to observe the mean velocity limits that person travel in. I thin to thrust the one, the car, with the automatic cruise power that volition support maine wrong the speed.’

In 2016, Coogan was fined and slapped with a driving ban for doing 54mph successful a 30mph zone.

He was driving his Mazda astatine astir doubly the velocity bounds successful Brighton past October erstwhile helium was caught. He did not look successful tribunal but admitted speeding successful his £25,000 Mazda MX-5 done his solicitor.

As good arsenic the ban, which prohibited him from getting down the instrumentality for 28 days, Coogan was fined £670, with £85 successful costs, by Worthington magistrates.

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