A ‘reckless’ supercar driver clocked ‘track speeds’ on a busy motorway yesterday. 

The top-of-the-range BMW i8 was spotted traveling at 142 miles per hour on the M5.

Police described the motorist as ‘selfish’ after a camera close to Bristol spotted the speeding vehicle.

Avon and Somerset Police’s Roads Policing Unit tweeted: ‘Supercar at track speeds on the M5.

‘Driver detected at a speed of 142mph today in Somerset and was stopped by officers near to Bristol.

‘This level of driving is both reckless and selfish – it puts lives at risk.’

He was branded a ‘selfish prat’ by one commenter and another said police should ‘remove the car and crush it’.

Officers described the car as moving at a ‘fatal speed’ and revealed one in 25 motorists who passed the speed camera that day were breaking the law.

Police shared an image of the BMW on the motorway at 12.18pm and another of it on the hard shoulder after it had been pulled over by officers.

One Twitter user wrote: ‘Shame the camera can’t catch that moment when they know they’ve been caught and need to catch a bus in future.’

A Somerset and Avon Police spokesperson said: ‘A 33-year-old man from London has been reported for summons in connection with this incident.’

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, 202 people were killed in collisions involving someone exceeding the speed limit in 2020.

A further 1,368 people were seriously injured and 2,803 slightly injured and 115 people died when someone was traveling too fast for the conditions.

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