Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has come under fire for claiming he has driven at 186mph on a public road. While appearing at the Hay Festival in Wales, Clarkson told journalist Rosie Boycott: "I got a great speeding ticket. I think it was 186 in the Limehouse Link. Well, somebody did. Obviously it might not have been me." Clarkson claimed that his lawyer Nick Freeman was able to help him maintain a clean driving licence: "Nick is wonderful. He gets you off everything. Well, doesn't get you off; show’s you're not guilty. The speed limit's annoying for people who have a job to do." Responding to the comments, Steve Mohabir, who survived a two-car collision that claimed eight lives, branded (more)...
- 5/29/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
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