A 62-year-old man has been charged with drink driving after a lorry was stopped on the A14 in Suffolk.
Police pulled over the HGV on the road at Bury St Edmunds on Saturday.
A HGV driver caught drink driving on the A14 yesterday has been charged & remanded for court. We received a number of calls reporting the lorry swerving in the road near Bury. The driver provided a sample of breath which was four times over the drink drive limit. pic.twitter.com/ZWnIPo8CvN
— Bury St Edmunds Police (@BuryStEdsPolice) November 27, 2022
Suffolk police said a man was arrested on suspicion of driving with excess alcohol and taken to Bury St Edmunds police investigation centre for questioning.
Nigel Hodges, of Yew Tree Road, Attleborough, was subsequently charged with driving a motor vehicle when his alcohol was above the prescribed limit.
He was remanded to appear before Suffolk Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
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