High-speed Midland highway motorbike rider disqualified: ‘I was an idiot’

An Epping Forest man was travelling almost 60km/h above the speed limit when police clocked him on a radar.

AN Epping Forest man caught driving almost 60km/h above the speed limit on the Midlands Highway has been disqualified from driving for four months.

Police clocked Thomas Sydney Ennis, 25, travelling 168km/h on a Yamaha motorbike in a 110km/h zone just south of his home town at 1.15pm on November 28 last year.

Ennis pleaded guilty to the speeding charge via phone link to the Launceston Magistrates Court on Monday.

Magistrate Simon Brown said it was an excessive speeding episode.

“This is really a very high speed indeed.”

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Ennis said he had learnt his lesson.

“I was an idiot,” he said.

“I shouldn’t have done what I did.”

Magistrate Brown convicted and disqualified Ennis from driving for four months and fined him $900.

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