A man in a hurry has lost his licence, a stack of cash and his BMW after he was allegedly clocked at 200km/h on the Hume Highway on Tuesday.
The 42-year-old was first noticed whistling along the dual-carriageway by highway patrol officers conducting speed checks at Mundarlo, near South Gundagai, around 5pm.
The vehicle was stopped near the Snowy Mountains Highway soon after, and police spoke to the man behind the wheel before issuing him with a $2350 infringement notice for exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h.
The BMW was towed from the scene and it will be three months before it is back in the hands of the owner, police said.
It’ll also be a further three months until he can get back behind the wheel after being dealt a six-month licence suspension along with the fine and confiscation.
Excessive speeding and dangerous driving on NSW roads continues to be a target of police, the head of NSW Police’s traffic and highway patrol command Assistant Commissioner John Hartley said.
“We are working hard to educate people on road safety through campaigns like Toward Zero, which is about lowering the road toll, but we also need to continue to target bad driver behaviour,” Assistant Commissioner Hartley said.
“Our ongoing road enforcement activities across the state aim to ensure those people who are putting put their own lives and the lives of others at risk on our roads by doing the wrong thing are targeted and detected.”