A motorcyclist who posted shocking video footage of him driving dangerously along the notorious Cat and Fiddle road has appeared in court after police watched it online.
The A537 stretch has repeatedly been branded Britain’s most dangerous due its severe bends and steep drops.
The 21-year-old uploaded the clip online, recorded from his helmet camera, which captured him being thrown off his machine at 60mph and repeatedly somersaulting down the hill.
But the young biker’s attempts to ‘warn other riders’ turned sour when cops spotted the video on YouTube, which went viral with more than 100,000 views, and tracked him down.
Sanderson was convicted of dangerous driving on the road – the home to the Cat and Fiddle pub and the second highest in England at 1,690ft – at a hearing at Macclesfield Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (August 19).
He will be sentenced later this month and has been banned from driving any vehicle in the meantime.
Sanderson’s footage showed him riding his motorcycle towards Macclesfield. But the countryside ride was ruined when he overtook two bikes and came within inches of colliding with a car on a corner and veered into a field. The dazed Sanderson is then seen getting to his feet, dusting himself down and clambering back up the hill to greet concerned onlookers who had stopped to help.
His only wound was a cut hand – caused when he grabbed some barbed wire as he walked to safety.
The motorbike, which stopped at the top of the ridge, was written off and was sold off for parts.
At the time, engineer Jack, from Mobberley, Cheshire, said: “I can’t believe I walked out of that, not even with a broken bone.
“When I went over the ridge I was like helicopter spinning. I thought, this is it. I’m a goner.
“My bike stayed at the top of the ridge and I continued down.
“If my bike had followed me and crushed me, I would not be standing here today.”
