I was driving home last night, when I came up behind a car that was being driven, to put it mildly, rather erratically. As I approached him he braked for no apparent reason and almost came to a stop in the middle of the road. I flashed him, and he drove off, but he was weaving across the road – on a couple of occasions he was driving on the wrong side of the road, and actually clipped the kerb on the opposite side of the road, before weaving back to the correct side.
I phoned 999, and was put through to the local police. I then gave them a running commentary for the next 15 minutes or so, as the guy was heading in the same direction as me.
At one point he pulled over and stopped, so I went past him. I arrived at a red light 100 yards later and looked in my mirror to see that he was back on the road, and approaching me. I was actually rather apprehensive, as he didn’t seem to be slowing down, and I was mentally bracing myself for the hit. However, at the last minute he swerved to the right and overtook both myself and the car in front of me, sailing merrily through the red light.
The car in front of me turned left, so I was again following the miscreant. He again mounted the pavement a couple of times, and then jumped another red light.
All the time I was describing his driving to the police, and they said they had alerted patrols. However, he then started driving much more quickly, well over the speed limit, so I soon lost sight of him.
I was a bit miffed that I hadn’t actually seen any police cars, and that he would probably have got away with it.
However, about half an hour later I received a call from a mobile number I didn’t recognise. it was by now well past midnight, so I was a bit dubious about answering it. I did so tentatively, and it was a local PC, who said they had just arrested him, and that when breathalysed he gave a reading that was more than three times the legal limit.
He thanked me for my assistance, and I went to bed a happy man!
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