Published:
4:41 PM May 13, 2021
Updated:
4:42 PM May 13, 2021
The moment a lorry driver lost control on the motorway, colliding with a central reservation, in a booze-fuelled crash has been caught on camera. Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Credit: Cambridgeshire Constabulary
A lorry driver who was caught drink driving after colliding with a central reservation on a motorway has lost his licence.
Police were called by members of the public at about 10.30am on Tuesday morning (May 11) reporting a lorry swerving across the road on the A1M northbound near Peterborough.
The artic lorry, belonging to French logistics company Jetfreeze, was seen driving across both lanes before leaving the road onto the grass verge.
Police in Cambridgeshire released this dash cam footage of the lorry swerving across the A1M.
A lorry driver who sipped whisky and coke at the wheel before falling asleep as he drove up the A1M near Peterborough has lost his licence.
Police have released shocking footage of the incident showing the lorry swerving into the central reservation at about 10.30am on Tuesday morning (11 May).
Neighbourhood policing officers who were in the area located the Scania which had pulled over in a layby opposite the junction with Water Newton.
The driver, 40-year-old Lauri Martel, was breathalysed at the roadside and arrested after being almost twice the legal drink drive limit – 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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