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Car racing at 135mph on bypass seized by police

Merseyside Police A red car is half way up a platform leading from the road onto a recovery truck. A police car with its lights flashing is a short distance behind on the same road. Grass verge is on one side and the central reservation barrier is on the other.Merseyside Police
Police said the car was "clocked" at 135mph on the Rainford Bypass

A car caught racing at 135mph on a bypass has been seized by police.

Merseyside Police said the driver was caught after complaints the Rainford Bypass was being used by vehicles "as a racetrack".

The male driver's car was seized in the early hours of Sunday in Rainford.

Police said he had also been given a Section 59 warning for anti-social driving two months earlier.

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