A married mum-of-five who was caught speeding five times in a 19 day time span has been banned from the roads.
Nurse Natasha Hubble was caught by the same set of speed cameras repeatedly.
Between September 3 and 33, 2020, she broke the 50mph temporary speed limit, driving between 58-63mph on the M62 motorway, near Manchester.
She tried to convince Tameside Magistrates Court that she needed her car because she clocked up around 600 miles a week driving to work, taking her children to school and her son to football games.
The 36-year-old claimed that her family “relied” upon her for lifts as her 37-year-old husband Chris, a director of an engineering firm, was “not much assistance” as he was too busy with his own work.
Hubble admitted speeding but tried to dodge the driving ban claiming that she and her family would suffer from “exceptional hardship”.
But she was disqualified for six months after a magistrate told her: "We have heard about inconvenience - but not exceptional hardship."
She was also slapped with a £476 fine with £142 costs.
Hubble, of Knowsley, Liverpool, had been driving in her BMW 220D M Sport Auto when she broke the law.
Her lawyer Charles Stansfield told the hearing that she had had a clean driving license for 14 years up until the offence.
He added that: "She has completed a speed awareness course for one of these offences and she has now learnt about the importance of following the temporary limit and how it still applies.”
Stansfield also argued that she has three different drop off points for her five children, aged two, six, 10, 13 and 15, on the school run.
They added the points hanging over her head would be a sufficient punishment and that she regularly drives hundreds of miles a week to take her 10-year-old to football games.
He said: "The 10-year-old is a very good young footballer. In terms of miles per week she says in one week the total was 577.3 miles.
“She says her son plays football for Blackpool academy and trains at Myerscough College twice per weekly, which is 130 miles.
"She said he played a match at Carlisle which that week was 214 miles. She says she travelled 52 miles for her academy job, 12 miles for her shift at the hospital and 70 miles for her mobile aesthetics plus 8.8 miles to take her son to football.
“This is pretty well an average driving week, maybe slightly less because of the trip to Carlisle.”
Hubble also used her car to get to work, and for her mobile business, and Stansfield claimed her family life is “seriously in jeopardy”.
He added: "Her rough net income is about £625 per week plus £78 per week in child benefit. Her husband's net income is £450 per week but this will fluctuate. They pay expenses of around £3,800 per month for their mortgage, council tax, house keeping, insurance, mobile phone contracts etc.
"That does not include clothing and the odd chocolate bar. I think what comes in goes out and in other circumstances, she would be applauded for what she does in an average week.
"She is desperately sorry for the situation she has got herself in. She has asked me to ask you not to ban her at all. She will not commit anymore offences as she knows what she has done. She will not be before the courts again."
But JP Maxine Hamer told her: "The bench takes speeding very seriously. We have heard a lot about your family circumstances and how you work for yourself and your husband as well as your travel.
"However, you have failed to meet the threshold needed for exceptional hardship. We have heard hardship and inconvenience but not exceptional hardship."
