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Post by rugbytoffee on May 12, 2017 6:43:05 GMT
 He should’ve known to stay on his tracks but instead he was seen cruising down the M1 – and was caught out in the process. Okay, so it wasn’t exactly Thomas himself – but a car modified to look like the famous train was stopped by police near Leeds. The driver, David Scott, had been on his way to the annual Scumrun charity motor rally in Kent with teammates when West Yorkshire Police road officers stopped him along the M1 motorway near Wetherby yesterday. Officers demanded Scott dismantle the car, which had been modified so that the front looked like it was Thomas’s boiler and ‘buffers’ were added to the bumper. He was also reported for construction/use offences relating to the potentially unsafe design of the car. He said: ‘We were given three points, £100 fine and made to tow the car to a local garage in Leeds and rem |
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Post by evertontillidie on May 12, 2017 13:48:35 GMT
He should’ve known to stay on his tracks but instead he was seen cruising down the M1 – and was caught out in the process. Okay, so it wasn’t exactly Thomas himself – but a car modified to look like the famous train was stopped by police near Leeds. The driver, David Scott, had been on his way to the annual Scumrun charity motor rally in Kent with teammates when West Yorkshire Police road officers stopped him along the M1 motorway near Wetherby yesterday. Officers demanded Scott dismantle the car, which had been modified so that the front looked like it was Thomas’s boiler and ‘buffers’ were added to the bumper. He was also reported for construction/use offences relating to the potentially unsafe design of the car. He said: ‘We were given three points, £100 fine and made to tow the car to a local garage in Leeds and rem How can police tell him to dismantle the car? It must have had an MOT to be on the road and passed as road worthy, or it didn't, and he's driving it illegally, but the police can't tell him to dismantle it. It sounds like a made up story. |
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