Influencer, 32, is banned from roads for speeding in her father’s Porsche at 93mph – after telling court she needs licence because taking taxis and trains to photoshoots is ‘too challenging’

A social media influencer has been banned from the road for speeding after telling a court that using taxis and trains to get to photo shoots would be too “challenging” for her.

Lucia Campolucci-Bordi, 32, was caught driving her father’s Porsche at 90mph along the M57 near Liverpool on June 6 last year.

A police officer checked her speed as she zoomed past in the seven-speed Macan.

She was disqualified for driving under the addition procedure – the accumulation of 12 or more penalty points.

But the mother-of-two from Southport, Merseyside, urged JPs (justices of the peace) not to ban her, saying she needed her driving license to get to and from media assignments and to look after her two young children care, who go to nursery and pre-school. school.

She claimed: ‘I have looked into getting taxis and trains but it would be quite a challenge for me.’

She said she shouldn’t take the bus and said she couldn’t afford a driver.

However, magistrates at a Wirral court heard she had continued to run her business despite not driving since November, when she received notice from the court about her hearing.

She had also taken her children to a school and daycare closer to her home and her grandparents would help her with the school run.

The court rejected her request due to exceptional hardship and disqualified her from driving for six months.

Campolucci-Bordi, who runs her own social media agency, already had nine points on her license for speeding and not having insurance when she was stopped in June.

Tom Oglesby, prosecuting, said a police officer’s attention was drawn to a gray Porsche Macan driven by Campolucci-Bordi on the northern part of the M57 between junctions 3 and 4 at 10.16am on June 6 because he believed that drove into this one. exceeding the speed limit.

The officer checked the speed of the car over a distance of 2.1 kilometers and found that the car was traveling at an average speed of 150 km/h.

Mr Oglesby said: “The officer caused the vehicle to stop. The officer pointed out that she was speeding and that she would receive a notice of intended prosecution, but she did not respond.”

In response to questions from legal counsel, Campolucci-Bordi, who admitted he was speeding, said: “I do a lot of client-facing work, I go to meet clients and do content shoots.

‘Of course I bring equipment with me for the content shoots, such as lighting, but without my own vehicle it is very difficult because the customers are located all over the country. Not all of them are local.

‘We do social media, Instagram and TikTok for companies, for hair and beauty brands, skin care brands or aesthetic companies.

“We go to them to get their content and create their social media strategy.

‘We get data. I have a few girls who work for me. They schedule all the messaging, customer communications via Zoom and things like that, but they don’t do the content or the actual customer-facing meetings. I will do all that.’

Asked if she had considered hiring a driver, she said: “I don’t know if I would have the financials.

‘I don’t have much, if any, disposable income. I am the sole breadwinner for my children and the profit I make pays for our living expenses.

“I should consider sacrificing other things. I have no disposable income in the business, so it would be very difficult.

“I got a couple of loans when we bought the house years ago because we had some renovations done by cowboy builders. I pay back those loans and that’s my fault.

“I lost a customer in December because I couldn’t get the content we needed. It was really a challenge.

“But I would say more because of the kids than the work, but it was difficult because I couldn’t get clients and client shoots, which I would normally be able to do.”

Campolucci-Bordi said she has two children, ages two and four.

She said she has a mortgage on a property but is living near her parents’ house while they separate.

She plans to move back into her home once her ex-partner has moved out.

She said her children’s daycare and preschool were a 25-minute drive away and her grandfather, who is 85, had taken the children for her in recent months.

She said that because of the distance, she moved the children closer to her residence in case she lost her driver’s license.

She said, “They’re just getting started. My grandmother will take them. It’s a bit much for him. It was a 25 minute journey.

“I thought if I don’t get my driver’s license back, it’s a bit too far for him. I have now moved them to a daycare center and childminder a little closer to home.

“It’s not an excuse, but when the speeding violation happened, it was just a tough time.

“I had taken the kids to my mother-in-law’s house, which is about an hour away, and they were arguing and arguing in the car.

‘They didn’t want me to leave. I wasn’t focused.

‘I know how terrible it is to drive too fast. I’m usually very against it, especially when there are young children in the car. That day in particular I wasn’t in a good mood.’

Campolucci-Bordi was also fined £307 with £233 in costs and surcharges.

JP Beverley Dawson told her: ‘Exceptional hardship is always difficult to prove because it cannot simply mean losing your income or livelihood, which is obviously an inconvenience.

‘You must prove that both yourself and other people will suffer exceptional hardship as a result of losing your driver’s license.

‘Why haven’t we encountered exceptional hardship? Your job.

“You’ve already talked about using contractors to do some work and there are a lot of talented people who can take pictures. Maybe some of them drive and can pick them up.

“But since you’re using two contractors now, maybe you could use one as a contractor to do some of that content.”

‘You showed us that you could keep the company running while not driving.

“I know you said that didn’t stop you from making the big money, but you’re showing us that you can make it.

‘We also see that you have two children and they now go to daycare and playgroup closer to home.

“You also have a supportive family who can help you from time to time.”