A brazen biker avoided death by inches before he was banned from driving by police who spotted his 100mph death-defying stunts online.
Benjamin Males, 22, was busted by a social media post which attracted more than one million views after it was uploaded in April.
The video sees the reckless motorcyclist speed at 89mph in 50mph zones in wet conditions before racing along at 97mph on a country road.
Last week he was disqualified from driving for 18 months after which he must pass an extended test to get his licence back.
In the hair-raising clip shot around Shrewsbury and Wem, Shropshire, Males can first be seen hurtling along on one wheel as he speeds down a country road.
A camera attached to his bike shows the driver’s perspective as he races past pedestrian crossings and other vehicles.
He can be seen revving up the bike with his gloved hands, seemingly oblivious of the heavy traffic around him.
In heart-racing footage, Males then lifts his handlebars to perform a terrifying wheelie.
A brazen biker avoided death by inches before he was banned from driving by police who spotted his 100mph death-defying stunts online
Benjamin Males, 22, was busted by this social media post which attracted more than one million views after it was uploaded in April, his soaring speedometer constantly in view
In the hair-raising clip shot around Shrewsbury and Wem, Shropshire, Males can first be seen hurtling along on one wheel as he speeds down a country road
Further haunting clips see the driver slaloming between cars and facing oncoming traffic as he brazenly overtakes vehicles in his way.
Later, he bursts straight onto a roundabout with little regard for the cars trying to approach it.
At this point he almost loses control of his bike, wobbling as he exits the roundabout and onto a quieter country road.
Males then audaciously overtakes three cars in one reckless manoeuvre before squeezing past a fourth on the inside.
He continues doing wheelies on the country lane despite light rapidly fading, his speedometer constantly showing the eye-watering pace at which he is travelling.
Throughout the video, he experiences several near-misses as he hurtles along at breakneck speeds.
Despite attempts to conceal his identity by tagging the video’s location as Mexico, officers were able to work out that the rider was Males.
He was arrested and charged with five counts of dangerous driving, which he pleaded guilty to at Telford Magistrates Court last Wednesday.
Further haunting clips see the driver slaloming between cars and facing oncoming traffic as he brazenly overtakes vehicles in his way
Males then audaciously overtakes three cars in one reckless manoeuvre before squeezing past a fourth on the inside
Throughout the video, he experiences several near-misses as he hurtles along at breakneck speeds
On top of the driving ban, Males was ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work, given a rehabilitation order and fined £199.
PC Jack Jackson, from Telford’s Operational Policing Unit, said: ‘I want to make it absolutely clear that we will take robust action when we see dangerous behaviour on our roads, including when it’s posted online.
‘The footage in this case, uploaded by Males himself to Instagram, showed an appalling disregard for road safety.
‘His conviction should serve as a stark warning that social media is not a shield from prosecution.
‘We have at our disposal a variety of means to identify individuals from social media, even when they take extra measures to obscure their identity, and this serves as proof of the effectiveness of our investigations.
‘Dangerous riding doesn’t just put the rider at risk, it endangers innocent road users and influences others to copy reckless behaviour.
‘Under Operation Indiana, the force is targeting high-risk road use through enforcement, education, and partnership work.
‘If you choose to put lives at risk on our roads you can expect to be held accountable.’
