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18.05.2022 - 12:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A company boss caught speeding at 119mph in his luxury brand new BMW moaned he would be unable to afford to get taxis to his local gym if he was banned from driving.
Director Dean Crawford, 42, faced being barred under the totting up procedure after he was clocked speeding on the M58 westbound near Skelmersdale, Lancashire.
His M135i XDrive Auto is worth around £37,000 - but Crawford, who is director of three companies, including a waste disposal business and a window shutter repair firm, has refused pleas to sell it to free up funds for travel expenses, instead telling the court he was on benefits and making a plea for "exceptional hardship".
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Crawford claimed he needed the BMW as he could not afford to pay for taxis to get to the gym and also for visits to see his mother and daughter.
JPs in Sefton, near Liverpool refused the businessman's plea for mercy after prosecutor Matt Routly advised him: ''You still have that BMW. You could sell that and that would raise quite a lot of funds?
''It could pay for quite a lot of taxis and buy you a bicycle. That's very often the price people have to pay when they speed all the time."
Crawford, formerly of Whitefield, near Bury, Greater Manchester but now living in Blackburn, had recently taken delivery of the car when he was clocked driving nearly 50mph over the limit on November 21 of last year.
He already had nine points on his licence - two for speeding offences and the other for contravening a traffic signal.
But Crawford, who has previously had a Mercedes AMG and an Audi, told the court he suffered various health issues said he was temporarily paralysed
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