PROFESSIONAL company car drivers who are male and aged between 45 and 54 are the most typical speeding motorists.

New research has shattered the perceived image of a speeder as a young lad in a baseball cap, says the RAC Foundation and Autocar magazine.

He also lives in the West Country, Wales, Yorkshire or East Anglia, works full-time and lives in a household with two or more cars.

The profile of the least likely person in the country to have a speeding conviction, according to the research, is an elderly woman on a state pension driving a Volvo and living in Scotland.

Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, said: 'This research appears to rubbish the usual stereotype of a speeder as young, lawless and uncaring.'

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