Traffic Police

Part 2

Strolling up the M62 at about 60mph watching everyone behaving themselves, in the outside lane was a car heading East bound speeding, we followed him at a distance for several miles without lights or sirens. Eventually we caught him up as he was doing just over 80mph in the centre lane tailgating and over taking. When Simon pulled him over onto the hard shoulder he said the reason he kept overtaking at speed was because he’d heard that from today (Monday) you could be booked for loitering in the centre lane and yes he did see us behind him but didn’t want to get booked so kept overtaking. When it was pointed out to him that he could have just kept his speed down he just kept saying he didn’t want to get booked for being in the centre lane. He didn’t get booked for being in the centre lane but did get booked for speeding. Had he lived closer to home I would have given him one of my cards and offered refresher lessons.