An R driver caught doing double his restricted speed of 45mph said he had received a phone call at work that his wife had "collapsed".

The 45-year-old was detected doing 90mph on the M2 motorway at Rathbeg near Antrim town on April 17 this year.

Alabi Amire, a support worker, with an address listed as Ravenhill Court in Belfast, told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, he knew it was "wrong" and he was sorry for speeding but he asked the judge to consider the "circumstances" of the case.

District Judge Nigel Broderick said the defendant could "consider yourself very lucky" not to be banned but that he would take the defendant's comments into account.

The defendant was given five penalty points and was fined £200.