Drink-driver twice over limit stopped by police on M6 after 'gesturing' out of window

Mercedes stopped by police
-Credit: (Image: Lancs Road Police)


A drink-driver was stopped on the M6 near Preston and found to be twice over the limit.

Lancs Road Police pulled over the driver of a Mercedes after he 'decided not to move out of the way' for a police car. The Mercedes driver is said to have tested his breaks on the police, driving a Volvo.

The driver then 'gestured out of the window' before being pulled over.

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Checks on the side of the road found the motorist to be twice over the legal limit of alcohol.

Police then took the driver to the cells and the car was recovered.

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