Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Spaghetti-eating trucker jailed

A lorry driver caught steering with his knees while he ate spaghetti from a pan has been jailed for eight weeks after he admitted dangerous driving.

Martin Veens was spotted driving his left-hand 40-tonne truck erratically on the A55 road near Northop, Flintshire.

Prestatyn magistrates heard how the North Wales Police helicopter's camera filmed him holding and eating from a saucepan as he steered with his knees.

Veens, from the Netherlands, was banned from driving for a year.

With police helicopter footage of Martin Veens's truck.

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