Newtownabbey man did almost double the speed limit due to 'heightened sense of anxiety'
A court was told a motorist caught doing 76mph in a 40mph zone said he had been "anxious" after seeing two people who had made a "very serious threat" to him previously.
He admitted breaching the speed limit at Antrim Road, Templepatrick, on October 21 2025.
A defence barrister said there was "obviously no excuse" for such a speed but the defendant was "in a very heightened sense of anxiety due to seeing two people who had made very serious threats to him a number of years ago".
Craig Andrew McCombe (46), from the Newtownabbey area, spotted them at a service station and "got in his car and drove at a speed".
District Judge Nigel Broderick told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, the defendant was doing a "motorway speed".
He said road safety experts say if somebody is hit at such a speed in a 40mph zone there is a chance of a fatality.
The defendant received a one-month road ban and £150 fine.