'I was going too fast,' admitted Andy Burnham, after the heavyweight Labour politician was ordered to pay almost £2,000 in fines, charges, and court costs for speeding on a smart motorway.
said a closure of junction 10, which he normally used to exit the motorway, had forced him to suddenly change his usual route home to Golborne in Wigan.
He said he was"not aware of any variable speed limit in place" at the time of the incident on 7 July last year.But he accepted that he was"going too fast"."That said, I acknowledge that, at 78mph, I was going too fast and accept the court's decision."
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