THE impact on a speeding driver's family has spared him a totting-up disqualification.

Cassidy Murwira, 40, company director, drove a 58-reg Citroen C4 at 35mph in the 30-limit Ringwood Road in Totton on on February 27 last year.

Murwira, of Morgan Le Fay Drive, Chandler's Ford, pleaded guilty under the single justice procedure.

The offence made him liable for a ban under the totting up rules but magistrates in Basingstoke decided against after hearing that a ban would hit his business, First Choice Care, the agency workers he employs, as well as his family in the UK and Zimbabwe who he financially supports. It would also impact on his mother who is in serious poor health, the court was told

Instead the court fined him £150 with a £32 victim surcharge, £85 costs and three penalty points.