Halloween is just days away, but we are already looking ahead to the next holiday: Bonfire Night.
29.09.2023 - 05:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
As a hard-working trucker he is entitled to a mug of tea. But not while driving on the M6.
The culprit was caught on film sipping his brew as he drove down the busy motorway in Cheshire. Police in an unmarked HGV pulled alongside and in footage an officer can be heard telling him to concentrate on his driving.
To the exasperation of the officer the trucker takes both hands off the steering wheel as he drives. He was later issued with a traffic offence report for not being in proper control of his vehicle which resulted in three points on his licence and a £100 fine.
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The clip was released by National Highways today as a major operation was launched to stop such reckless driving on the M62.
Police in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, the Liverpool Ports Police, West Yorkshire and Humberside will be using National Highways’ unmarked HGV cabs in a bid to reduce and prevent accidents.
Operation Pennine launches on Friday and will continue throughout the month of October. Hundreds of thousands of drivers travel on the M62 every day and in 2022 there were 28,607 incidents on the M62. Of those 28,607 incidents, 1,651 were traffic collisions.
During 2022 on the M62, Merseyside police found 30 people to not be wearing a seatbelt, 59 using a mobile phone and eight people not in proper control of their vehicle. A further 140 people were found to have been speeding.
Officers in the unmarked cabs will be looking out for similar incidents of illegal driving - such as the driver in the image below who was spotted at the wheel of
Halloween is just days away, but we are already looking ahead to the next holiday: Bonfire Night.
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