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Truck driver throws bottle at a cop's car
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• A truck driver's road rage cost him a £200 fine from Solihull magistrates after he threw a bottle on a busy motorway—and hit a car being driven by an off-duty policeman.
Cohn Pidoux of Cambourne, Cornwall was also ordered to pay £113 compensation and £35 costs after he pleaded guilty to a charge of causing criminal damage.
Graham White, prosecuting, told the magistrates that Pidoux was driving his Scania in the inside lane between Junctions 4 and 5 on the M42 near Solihull, last May when off-duty PC Dean Lewis overtook him.
"The pohceman pulled in to leave the busy stretch of road when the incensed lorry driver sounded his horn and flashed his lights," said White.
"Pidoux then drew level with the policeman's T-registared Volkswagen before hurling a bottle at him from his cab," he added.
White said that when Constable Lewis reached home he found damage totalling £113.36 to his vehicle's front offside window. He began an investigation and Pidoux was eventually traced through the registration of his truck.
Nicola Purches, defending Pidoux, told the magistrates: "The defendant was absolutely incensed at the actions of the complainant. But he accepts that what he did was a foolish act"