Officers stopped a motorist who was found inhaling laughing gas at the wheel during a crackdown on anti-social driving. The reckless behaviour was one of several incidents police clocked during an operation to make the city centre's roads safer.
A team of volunteer officers from Greater Manchester Police's Special Constabulary and the force's traffic PCSOs were out in force across the city centre last night (July 7). They spent three hours targeting drivers who posed a threat on Manchester's roads.
As well as the driver inhaling laughing gas, GMP took an uninsured car off the road and clocked 17 people using their phone behind the wheel. Officers also spotted nine drivers who were not wearing a seatbelt, four cars with window tints which needed removing and two vehicles driven with illegal number plates.
