A BIKER was caught on camera doing 100mph just before he was killed on a notorious crash blackspot.

Prior to the collision Karl Hibberd, 28, had sped past another car, prompting a passenger to say: “If ever you are going to see a crash, this is going to be it.”

Mr Hibberd, a father-of-three, of Mansfield Park Street, Harefield, Southampton, suffered multiple injuries when he was thrown from his machine into the path of an oncoming car on the B4501 near Cerrigydrudion, North Wales.

The road past Llyn Brenig is part of the Evo Triangle known to attract bikers, and is patrolled every weekend by police.

Mr Hibberd, a mechanic and lifelong biking enthusiast, was spending a few days in the area with friends. His Honda Firebird 1,000cc machine was only a month old.

At an inquest in Denbighshire fellow biker William Kelly said Mr Hibberd overtook him at an estimated 100mph before the crash last June.

Mr Hibberd failed to take a left-hand bend, forcing his machine to shoot past an oncoming car while he was thrown under it.

Collision investigator Richard Davies said an expert had examined a 10-second clip filmed by Mr Kelly’s passenger and calculated that over the 100 metres before the collision Mr Hibberd travelled at an average of 100-103mph.

The theoretical maximum speed for the bend was 59mph., or 74mph if a “racing line” were adopted.

Recording a conclusion of death as a result of a road traffic collision, coroner John Gittins said: “I don’t want to discourage people from travelling to North Wales, but if they drive inappropriately incidents like this will occur.”

Mr Hibberd was a director of the family business, Autotune Garage Service in Hedge End. At the time of his death his family said: “Karl was a doting husband to his wife Katie and father to Jack, Harrison, and Isabella.”