Idiots In Cars

Two drug dealers sped down a motorway hard shoulder to avoid queuing – but unwittingly undertook one of our officers who caught up with the pair and found them with a stash of cocaine. Dash-cam from the PC’s patrol car shows Simon Pagett undertaking on the M6 near junction 7 last November and the officer exclaiming “Really?” in disbelief at their audacity. Pagett, alongside pal Dean Stone, gestured to pull over on seeing the blue lights but then accelerated away at speeds topping 100mph. The in-car footage shows the 39-year-old weaving between cars on the A34 towards #Walsall and jumping several sets of red lights. He heads onto grassland where Stone jumps out clutching the bag of drugs. We later catch him trying to catch a taxi and recover the bag dumped in bushes. Pagett even does a lap of a Toby Carvery car-park in a bid to shake off our advanced driver before giving up. The rucksack was found to contain five 1kg slabs of high-purity cocaine with a value of around half a million pounds. Pagett has