{"id":131127,"date":"2025-05-25T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131127\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:57:11","slug":"m6-driver-stopped-by-police-in-scene-compared-to-final-destination-as-force-sweeps-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131127\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 driver stopped by police in scene compared to &#8216;Final Destination&#8217; as force sweeps motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers patrolling the Midlands motorway had their heads turned by the strange sight, which they compared to the popular horror movie Final Destination<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_JS370432425.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>An M6 driver&#8217;s insecure load was compared by police officers to a scene from the horror movie Final Destination on Saturday May 24.(Image: @StaffsRCT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An M6 driver&#8217;s insecure load was compared by shocked police officers to a scene from the horror movie Final Destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Another driver was pulled over for an &#8220;outrageous&#8221; tyre in the motorway operation, which was carried out by Staffordshire Road Crime Team officers on Saturday May 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Traffic officers stopped and reported a number of drivers on Saturday as part of their sweep of the motorway, including a driver on their phone in lane 4 of the M6 north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/i-swapped-high-flying-role-31698100\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I swapped my high-flying role and company car to patrol the streets of Birmingham&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object] Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp <\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All drivers were stopped Saturday May 24 as part of Operation Lightning, the force&#8217;s road safety operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/staffordshire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Staffordshire<\/a> traffic officers first posted about a silver Renault which had a &#8220;completely insecure&#8221; load.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A @StaffsRCT spokesperson said: &#8220;No, this isn&#8217;t an advert for a new final destination movie.<\/p>\n<p>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Car spotted on the M6 with the boot not secure&#8230; on further look it was completely insecure and could have lost its load at any moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Driver reported and car prohibited until load secured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The chilling sights didn&#8217;t stop there, with another M6 driver pulled over for having a threadbare tyre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers pulled over a van travelling on the M6 after spotting its &#8220;outrageous&#8221; looking tyre, and clocked a total of six defects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sharing a picture of the tyre, which was shown to be severely damaged, officers warned that dangerous vehicles have &#8220;no place on ou roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_JS370432429.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>An M6 driver&#8217;s insecure load was compared by shocked police officers to a scene from the horror movie Final Destination. Another driver was pulled over for an &#8220;outrageous&#8221; tyre in a motorway operation, which was carried out by Staffordshire Road Crime Team officers on Saturday May 24.(Image: @StaffsRCT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A @StaffsRCT spokesperson said: &#8220;#Team3RCT stopped the van travelling #M6 for an examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A staggering 6 dangerous defects were found including this outrageous tyre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Driver reported and van prohibited from moving until recovery has arrived!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Unroadworthy vehicles have no place on our roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Staffordshire Road Crime Team regularly share their encounters on their X page (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The team use the platform as a way to educate but also highlight some of the sights they encounter so they can educate drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers patrolling the Midlands motorway had their heads turned by the strange sight, which they compared to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,8943,604,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-131127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-m6","13":"tag-staffordshire","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114569534210620329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}