A DRIVER has been clocked speeding at an astonishing 160 mph police in West Yorkshire have revealed. 

Officers in the county issued a total of 142,610 speeding tickets last year, far more than the second highest number, 62,623, issued by police in Surrey.

This number is up from 124,712 in 2016, and 129,083 in 2015.

The fastest speed in the country clocked by police was also in West Yorkshire, with one driver being found doing 160 miles per hour on a road with a 70mph limit, more than double the national speed limit.

The stopping distance at the speed is 1,423 ft - or nearly three times the distance it would take to stop at 70 mph.

The highest speed ever recorded on a UK road was 192 mph by the driver of an Audi RS6 clocked in Northamptonshire. The driver was later jailed for 28 months and banned from the roads for ten years.

West Yorkshire had the second highest speed recorded in a 30mph zone at 102mph, four miles per hour slower that the quickest speed - 106mph - recorded in Dundee.

Speed cameras were responsible for 139,134 of the speeding offences recorded in West Yorkshire last year, with 3,476 offences recorded by other means.

The figures have been released following Freedom of Information requests to the UK's 43 police forces, to which 19 forces responded.