Footage has been released showing a lorry driver performing a U-turn on a motorway after driving the wrong way up an exit slip-road.
Leonid Papachin conducted the manoeuvre in a 40-tonne truck on the M6 Toll in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The 51-year-old received a 15-week suspended prison term at Cannock Magistrates' Court last month after pleading guilty to dangerous driving.
He was also given an 18-month driving ban and made to pay £85 costs.
The Lithuanian national had been working in the UK for two months when he committed the offence at around 17:30 BST on 23 October.
Motorway patrol manager Ch Insp Jed White said: "I hope that it serves as a deterrent to anyone who thinks they can put other motorists in jeopardy by ignoring motorway regulations."
U turn if you want too
U turn if you want too
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: U turn if you want too
What the heck was he supposed to do? Easy mistake to go down the off-ramp but then what...?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Well not all of us are as experienced in going down the wrong road as you are, care to share?MajGenl.Meade wrote: Easy mistake to go down the off-ramp but then what...?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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It was a dark and stormy night... (stop me if you've heard this one)... and I was disoriented and she was too so... you know, these things happen
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts