A DRIVER clocked doing at least 107mph told police when she was finally stopped: "Can you let me off . . . my mam will go mad."

Samina Aksar weaved through rush-hour traffic and undertook slower moving vehicles as she sped into Middlesbrough town centre.

During the early evening escapade last May, the 27-year-old company director also dangerously "cut in" on another driver.

When police eventually caught up and pulled over the Volkswagen Passat, a shocked witness shouted: "You should throw the book at her."

Teesside Crown Court heard how Aksar drove at more than twice the speed limit on the A66 in her brother's silver saloon.

A pursuing police officer twice broke the 100mph barrier as he tried to keep up with Aksar, but had to slow because of other cars.

Prosecutor Sue Jacobs told the court that the road conditions were wet, with some standing water, and it was raining lightly.

A marked police car was going eastbound along the A66 close to Teesside Park when the Passat and a Volkswagen Golf sped past.

The officer began to follow and reached 98mph near the Tees Flyover, but was still 150 yards behind and had to slow down.

The speeding Passat overtook numerous vehicles then cut inside the Golf on a slip road, and then cut in front of a Renault Espace.

When the pursuit came to an end, Aksar said to police: "It's not my car. My car is not as fast as that. I didn’t realise."

The court that Aksar's father had recently died, and she was speeding home as she had been unable to contact her mother on the phone.

Her barrister Uzma Khan said: "She has been, and will continue to be, a decent law-abiding citizen. She is remorseful for her behaviour."

Aksar got penalty points on her driving licence for speeding in 2012, and for using a mobile phone whilst driving in 2010.

Miss Khan said initial allegations that Aksar had been racing the Golf were disproved, and court has had "a profound effect".

She was banned from the roads for a year, and given a three-month prison sentence, which was suspended for a year.

The judge, Recorder Felicity Davies, said she understood why she wanted to get home to ensure everything was ok with her mother.

But she told Aksar, of Marton Road, Middlesbrough: "The driving was so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate."

Aksar admitted a charge of dangerous driving on May 25 last year, at an earlier hearing at Teesside Magistrates' Court.