IDIOTIC MOVE
Watch reckless teen driver undertake cars on hard shoulder at 100MPH as he’s banned from driving
THIS is the moment a reckless teen driver undertook cars on a hard shoulder at 100MPH - seeing him banned from getting behind the wheel again anytime soon.
Danish Taqwa, 18, was snapped by another motorist's dashcam as he raced along the M4 in his black Audi A3, leaving just clouds of dust in his tracks.
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The Buckinghamshire teen can be seen zooming on the hard shoulder, undertaking multiple cars and lorries on the relatively clear motorway.
He has now been slapped with a fine and lost his license - just a year after he got it.
Taqwa appeared in the Swindon Magistrates' Court on Friday and admitted to driving without due care and attention on May 6.
Wiltshire Police said the 18-year-old was disqualified from driving for four months and ordered him to pay a £200 fine, £90 costs and a £34 surcharge.
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The Swindon Police then shared the video and the details of his sentence on Facebook yesterday.
But, the sentence handed to Taqwa was quickly criticised by many, who called it too lenient of a punishment.
One man wrote: "Complete joke! Could [have] been a broken down car, or Highways Agency working on that hard shoulder."
Another agreed, adding: "Pathetic 4 bloody months what if someone had broken down not only roadside but poor innocent victims this would have been horrific.
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"Justice system needs to look at the real world around them and stop dishing out lenient sentences."
Another user wrote: "The fine and costs is pointless, it's less than the cost of four tanks of fuel, and a very short ban considering the risk he presented.
"Some people seem to live life like it’s a computer game, but sadly if you kill someone they don't respawn."
Others said Taqwa should have been handed a "forever ban" and questioned why he hadn't been charged with dangerous driving.
Another woman wrote: "Because 4 months is going to stop him doing it again?"
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This footage has been released just days after another driver was caught speeding along a motorway - except they were in the fast lane on the wrong side of the road.
The video was posted to Tiktok with the title: "Dude was just cruising the wrong way down the M6 like it was the most normal thing ever."
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