Crime & Safety
M4 motorway – BMW hogging lane two and blocking blue lights
The incident happened over the Oxfordshire border in Berkshire, at the Calcot stretch of the M4 near Reading, on Thursday, April 23.
Officers driving on blue lights said the blue BMW 1-Series delayed them from getting to a report of a serious injury incident.
They accused the BMW driver of being “convinced that lane two in Calcot belonged exclusively to him, and that our blue lights and sirens were merely decorative”.
“After a prolonged game of ‘please move over’ we finally managed to stop him with the help of some colleagues,” police said.
“It quickly became apparent that alcohol was the reason he struggled to react like every other road user, with him being over double the drink drive limit by the time we got to custody.
“Minimum 12 month ban inbound… and most likely followed by a BMW up for sale.”