Patrol finds driver fast asleep on M56 hard shoulder

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A driver woke up to an unwelcome surprise this morning, after police fined him for parking up on the side of the motorway to have a snooze.

Officers from Cheshire Police came across a van stopped in the hard shoulder of the M56 with no lights on, and pulled up to check on the driver.

Inside, they found a man fast asleep, just two miles after the turn off for Chester Services. READ MORE: Metrolink driver assaulted at Rochdale tram stop in latest violent incident on the network Posting a picture of the van to their Twitter page, officers from the North West Motorway Police said: "Can anybody see the problem of where this driver was found tucked up for the night in his van, fast asleep, with no lights on? "This was on the M56, around two