Police staged a dramatic ‘boxing’ of a BMW on a Salford motorway this afternoon to stop a driver who evaded cops in Cheshire last week.
It was then found the driver then failed a drugs test. Greater Manchester Police’s traffic unit tweeted at 3:25pm that its officers had now arrested the driver and seized the BMW.
They also said that the driver was disqualified until 2023. READ MORE: "I just thought, 'he's gone'": Mum recalls horror of night son died in Arena attack The GMP unit said: “This BMW 118 had previously made off from Cheshire Roads Crime Unit last week.
It was picked up on the M602 by [the] SRT Tasking Team and boxed to prevent a pursuit. Driver [was] disqualified till April 2023 he then failed a drugs test + cocaine.” A photo accompanying the tweet shows the police vehicles surrounding the BMW at a junction on the motorway. Sign up to the Mancunian Way newsletter to get an in depth look at the biggest stories from our region every weekday
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