A Mercedes driver proved extremely unpopular as he drove along the M1 on the hard shoulder after the carriageway was closed due to a crash on Sunday, August 14. Large queues built up on the road early in the morning after a crash closed the southbound carriageway near Leicester.
Leicestershire Police said a driver made his way along the M1 as he had a flight to catch, Leicestershire Live reports. The road closure was in place until about 8am and, despite the early hour, there were long queues and traffic cameras showed some motorists getting out of their cars as the standstill continued.
But instead of sitting patiently with everyone else, one driver behind the wheel of a white Mercedes - who was shamed this morning by the Leicestershire Police roads policing unit on Twitter - decided to make a break for it.
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In a tweet at 9.45am today, the police team said: "This driver didn’t want to wait in the motorway closure this morning and drove down the hard shoulder, allegedly to ask us if he could get through to go to the airport.
"Great to hear the appreciation of other motorists as they passed and watched him receiving his ticket!"
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