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Police stop car on M62 to find 15 people inside including kids
Officers discovered it was carrying 15 people, including children, all ‘unrestrained’.
A vehicle was stopped on the M62 near Cheshire where police were ‘shocked’ to find 15 people inside.
Officers escorted the black Vauxhall Zafira off the motorway at junction 9, near Warrington, at around 11.20 am, on Wednesday November 15th, after noticing it ‘looked overloaded’.
The car was found to be carrying 11 adults and four children all not wearing seatbelts, police said.
Alongside a picture of the vehicle, North West Motorway Police wrote in a post on Twitter: “This vehicle was stopped by a Cheshire Motorway Patrol on M62 as the vehicle looked overloaded.
“They were shocked to find 15 people in the vehicle (including children), all unrestrained. Driver and unrestrained adults issued Traffic Offence Reports.”
The driver and other adult passengers were all given traffic offence reports.