Jeremy Clarkson Gets Points on Driving Licence For Speeding

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Writing in his weekly Sun newspaper column Clarkson has revealed that he was caught by a camera when he was driving too fast between Whitby and London, he also added that he was driving too speedily to be offered the option of taking a speed awareness course.

He said: “Last month I wrote in a blind fury about how many speed cameras I’d encountered on a drive from Whitby to London. Well, it seems one of them got to me. Sadly, I was going too quickly for the speed awareness course to be an option. Which means I’m getting some points on my licence. My first in 30 years.”

Clarkson who is one of the BBC’s highest paid presenters, was strongly criticised in 2008 for claiming to have driven 186mph on a public road, adding: “The speed limit’s annoying for people who have a job to do.”

This latest news comes just weeks after Clarkson and his fellow Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May sparked protests in Argentina while filming the Top Gear Christmas special, after being accused of deliberately driving a Porsche with the registration number H982 FKL, which locals suggested referred to the Falklands conflict of 1982. The presenters, were forced to abandon filming by outraged people, the show maintain that they bought the car – complete with the number plate – in the UK because it was the best available vehicle of its type and the number plate had not been considered.