It was late at night on July 31 this year that Mark Murray was detected on police radar driving at 154km/h along a South Island state highway.
As it turned out he was also driving while almost four times over the legal alcohol limit, which led a judge to describe it as an "extraordinarily bad, dangerous piece of driving", made worse by him having been so "significantly under the influence of alcohol".
It was the 28-year-old's third drink-drive offence – the two previous happened when he was teen, with the last a decade ago.
He must now complete 300 hours of community work for the offending.
In the Nelson District Court today, Murray, a meatworks seasonal worker, admitted charges of driving with excess breath alcohol for a third or subsequent time and driving at a dangerous speed.