Unaccompanied learner driver on M2 motorway caused 'significant tailback' by hogging overtaking lane
A car travelling at an estimated speed of 50mph in the overtaking lane of the M2 motorway when lane one was clear, caused a "significant tailback" and when police spoke to the driver it emerged she was an unaccompanied learner driver with no L plates displayed, a court has heard.
The detection was made at 10pm on September 23 last year.
Antrim Magistrates' Court, sitting in Ballymena, heard that police were travelling behind a Volkswagen Polo in lane two of the motorway with no vehicles in lane one and the Polo had caused a "significant tailback of vehicles".
District Judge Nigel Broderick said there had been a guilty plea "by post".
He said the defendant said she was on the way to "help someone in an emergency at Antrim Area Hospital".
Zainab Akinyele (51), whose address was listed as Whitewell Road, Newtownabbey, was given six penalty points and was fined £275.