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Express & Star
  • 07/06/2025
Shocking footage shows a lorry driver on the motorway with no hands on the wheel - as he rolls a cigarette.

The film was recorded as part of Gloucestershire Police's Operation Tramline on the M5 between Monday May 6 and Wednesday May 8.

Officers were in an unmarked HGV lorry using the elevated position of the cab to record and identify a number of traffic offences.

Transcript
00:00Again, he's throwing his hand, and he's rolling it with both hands off the wheel.
00:10There's White Hart Tiglis next to us, he's rolling a cigarette with both hands, sort
00:16of on the steering wheel rolling his fag, so he's got no control over that vehicle at all.
00:19He's phoning his hand. He's got a trailer in lane 3.
00:32He's phoning me out. Using his left hand.
00:49Yeah, he's definitely looking down at something in his right hand.

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