Motorcyclist`s death captured by friend rider
A motorcyclist who filmed his best friend at speeds of over 170mph and caught his horrific road death on camera has walked free from court.
With a camera strapped to his motorbike Fred Bowden followed Andrew Prowse as the pair broke the speed limit 30 times in just 20 minutes.
Bowden was still filming after 25 miles when his friend clipped a car with his Kawasaki ZX10R and was thrown under a
More..n oncoming camper van. Mr Prowse, 46, was decapitated and died instantly.
Flying wreckage from Bowden's motorcycle knocked Bowden off his own matching 1,000cc machine.
It later emerged that Bowden had been clocked during the chase on July 12 last year at a top speed of 156mph - but his speedometer had reached speeds of 170mph, Truro Crown Court heard.
The court was told that Bowden was caught speeding 30 times - riding 70mph in a 40mph limit, 100mph in a 60mph limit and 124mph in a 70mph limit.
Bowden, a 42-year-old father-of-four from Helston, Cornwall, had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving but today escaped a jail term.
He was given a 51-week jail sentence suspended for two years, fined ?190 and disqualified from driving for three years.
The prison sentence was suspended after the dead man's family asked the court to show lenience because he and Bowden had been close friends. Less..
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