- Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire traffic police shared the photo
- They pulled the driver over because they were driving in the wrong direction
- But they were stunned to discover that the car was missing an entire front tyre
Traffic police from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire force were shocked after discovering a blue Mercedes they pulled over was missing an entire tyre.
The police force tweeted a photo of the car they stopped for driving the wrong way up a slip road on the A421.
To their shock, they also discovered the driver was driving without a tyre on the Mercedes’ front wheel, running on just its rims.
Traffic police from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire force tweeted a photo of a car they stopped after discovering it was missing an entire tyre
Officers stopped the car for going the wrong way up a slip but soon realised that there was a bigger problem with the Mercedes.
They tweeted a photo of the rims the car was running on.
Alongside the photo, the force wrote: ‘Apparently it’s a design feature and perfectly safe to drive down the A421 and then the wrong way up the road.’
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The police force seemed less than impressed with the excuse apparently given by the driver
The police force implied that the driver had defended themselves by saying the rims were a ‘design feature’.
Unsurprisingly, they seemed less than impressed with the excuse.
A number of other Twitter users agreed with the police force, criticising the driver.
Daniel Simpson tweeted: ‘I sense points and a fine coming and maybe a ban if they [are] really lucky.’
Andrew Murray said: ‘Anyone who does this should get a ban and be forced to take a retest.’