Battered Citroen driver too high to realise he’d lost a tyre

Car had extensive bodywork damage and was missing a tyre, headlight and wing mirror

Battered Citroen driver too high to realise he’d lost a tyre
Image: North West Motorway Police.

Police stopped an unroadworthy Citroen C1 on the M60 yesterday after they were alerted by passing motorists.

Officers said the red car hadn’t been involved in an accident or collision but that the driver, in his early 20s, simply “entered the network thinking this is acceptable.”

The hatchback was stopped on the M60 between junctions 23 and 24, Ashton-under-Lyne and Denton, at around 10am on Monday morning.

It is not clear how far it had travelled but there are suggestions it had been driven all the way from West Yorkshire, where it is registered.

He was pulled over, arrested and provided a “positive roadside sample in relation to drugs.”

Police can only carry out roadside tests for cannabis and cocaine.

Images taken by North West Motorway Police show the Citroen with extensive bodywork damage and a missing offside headlight and only one wing mirror.

The nearside rear wheel is on its steel rim, which also appears to be bent and twisted out of shape.

The car was also uninsured.


Inspector Neil Anson of the North West Motorway Police, said: “I have not seen a vehicle like that come onto the motorway network before.

“It beggars belief really.

“It had one full tyre missing.

“There were plenty of motorists phoning it in to us.

“It was completely unroadworthy and the driver will now be questioned.”

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