A MAN who drove at 110 miles per hour on a Dorset road has been banned for four months.

Gabriel Butnariu was clocked speeding on the Puddletown Bypass on May 5 this year. The road has a 70mph speed limit.

The 24-year-old, of St George's Road in East London, has now been ordered not to get behind the wheel until 2019.

Butnariu was convicted of speeding and driving without appropriate insurance at Poole Magistrates' Court on Thursday, November 22.

He was fined a total of £1,000 and ordered to pay a £50 surcharge and £85 costs.

Butnariu is just the latest motorist caught driving at high speeds in the county.

  • In October, Timothy Hubbard, of Haycrafts Lane in Swanage, was convicted riding his Kawasaki motorbike on the Puddletown Bypass at 101mph on April 26. The 22-year-old was sentenced to a fine and costs. His driving record was also endorsed with six points.
  • Matthew Stanbury, 28, was convicted of driving a BMW at 101mph on the bypass in September. Stanbury, of Wimborne Road West, Wimborne, was caught on May 10. He was fined, ordered to pay costs and given six points.
  • Daniel Gallen, 51 and of Dover Road in Poole, was behind the wheel of his Porsche when he drove at 83 miles per hour on a 50mph stretch of the Wessex Way in May. The defendant was fined and ordered to pay costs. Magistrates also banned him from driving for six months and his licence was endorsed with six points.
  • Ryan White, 26, drove an Audi on the A35 Upton Bypass at 104mph on May 29. The speed limit is 70mph. White, of Holmes Road in Swanage, was fined and given six points on his licence.
  • In August, Nicholas Curtis, 58, was banned from driving after clocking up nearly 120mph in his Jaguar on the Spur Road. Curtis, of Woolslope Road, West Moors, already had six points on his licence from prior speeding offences. He was fined £750 and disqualified from driving for six months.
  • Young entrepreneur Mitchell Stuart, 21, was caught speeding in Lilliput Road, Poole at 55 miles per hour - almost double the 30mph limit - shortly before 3pm on June 5. Stuart, who already had six points on his licence, was behind the wheel of his Porsche when he was stopped. The defendant, of Brudenell Avenue in Sandbanks, was fined and banned from driving for 30 days.

Dorset Police list speeding as one of the 'fatal five', a list of actions a driver can take that make a collision more likely.

Traffic officers say 98 per cent of collisions are caused by human error, with just two per cent caused by unavoidable issues such as mechanical failure.

The fatal five are:

Excess or inappropriate speed

Failing to wear a seatbelt

Using a mobile phone

Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs

Careless or inconsiderate driving