Police stop M4 ‘risky’ drivers
On Thursday morning, Roads Policing officers stopped two vans on the motorway in Wiltshire, suspecting that the vehicles were significantly overweight and being driven dangerously. When the vans were brought into Badbury Weighbridge, officers found that both vehicles contained significant amounts of heavy duty cables worth thousands of pounds which were believed to have been stolen. 
The drivers of each van could not account for where the cable had come from and were then arrested on suspicion of theft. One of the drivers was further arrested for driving without insurance, driving while disqualified and using a vehicle in a dangerous condition. 
Both motorists have been taken into custody for questioning and the vehicles have been seized. Roads Policing Inspector Neil Duffin said: "This is excellent policing work which demonstrates how proactively investigating driving offences can and often does lead to the discovery of other offending. "Not only is the theft of power cables financially damaging to the victim who then has to replace them, there could also be substantial danger placed on the sites where the cables have been removed from.
"There is also the significant risk to other road users that overweight vehicles pose.
Overloading vehicles like these means their steering or brakes are likely to be impaired, potentially leading to serious or fatal collisions.
"We will continue to be robust with those found to be breaking the law on our roads."