Blackpool drug-driver arrested twice in one day after ‘skidding onto grass verge at 70mph’ on M6 before ‘driving erratically’ on A6

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A Blackpool man was arrested for drug-driving just hours after being apprehended for the same offence in Merseyside.

Police were called to reports of a car swerving across the M6 northbound, close to junction 33, at around 3.30pm on Tuesday (November 29).

Motorists reported the car had skidded onto a grass verge at 70mph on the motorway before driving erratically on the A6.

Officers attended the scene and pulled the vehicle over.

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A Blackpool man was arrested for drug-driving just hours after being caught for the same offence in MerseysideA Blackpool man was arrested for drug-driving just hours after being caught for the same offence in Merseyside
A Blackpool man was arrested for drug-driving just hours after being caught for the same offence in Merseyside

The driver – a 51-year-old man from Blackpool – subsequently tested positive for cocaine.

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It also transpired the man had been apprehended for the same offence just hours earlier in Merseyside.

“Spending the night in the cells after being arrested for drink or drug-driving doesn’t sound much fun to us,” a spokesman for Lancashire Police said.

“So to be arrested for a second time, just hours later, for the same thing, is honestly quite baffling.

“Are the beds in custody really that comfy?”