North Yorkshire Police releases video of 'dangerous driving on A64'
Officers were patrolling late last year in an unmarked police car
North Yorkshire Police has released footage of dangerous driving on the A64.
Police were patrolling the A64 late last year in an unmarked police car as part of their Fatal 5 crackdown on driving offences.
North Yorkshire Police said: "All was well and in order. We were about to overtake an Audi car, drawing level with it, when the driver cut in front us to squeeze into a gap between our car and the van in front.
"We sounded the horn to alert the driver to our presence which resulted in him opening his driver’s side door to make rude hand gestures at us.
"It’s likely he got a bit of an unfortunate surprise when we put the blue lights on and safely brought him to a stop at the next services.
"He tested positive for Cannabis and was arrested and charged.
"Last month he plead guilty to dangerous driving and driving under the influence of drugs. He was fined and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
"Cutting dangerously in between two vehicles on a dual carriageway is never a good idea, opening your car door at 60mph is also not a good idea and driving under the influence of Cannabis is certainly never a good idea and puts lives at risk!
"If you see anyone committing driving offences on our roads (for example dangerous driving, contravening a red traffic light, using a trailer in lane three of a motorway, mobile phone offences, contravening solid white lines), and it's captured on your dashcam, CCTV or a mobile phone by a passenger, we want you to send it in to us under our Op Snap campaign.
"Every piece of footage sent to Op Snap is reviewed by specially-trained staff.
"If an offence is identified, the driver can be prosecuted or told to take a driver improvement course."
In order for police to investigate any footage of incidents submitted by the public, it must meet certain criteria:
• Your report must be submitted within 10 days of the alleged offence to allow us time to investigate. By law we can only serve a notice of intended prosecution to a registered keeper or owner of a motor vehicle within 14 days of an alleged offence.
• The footage should include the whole incident and wherever possible should include 1 minute prior to and 1 minute after the offence. The footage should not be any longer than 10 minutes in duration.
Along with the footage, you would need to provide the following information:
• Date and time of incident
• Location of incident
• Registration of vehicle
• Make and colour of vehicle
• Footage of the offence taking place
• Details of what happened and how you were involved
You’ll also need to complete a statement and upload that alongside your footage.