Police seize car and stop driver inhaling laughing gas in blitz on 'anti-social driving'

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.

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GMP shared images from the operation in a social media post tonight (Saturday). They show a grey Volkswagen SUV being removed from the road on a recovery truck, and window tints being taken off from the front doors of an Audi.

A spokesperson for GMP City Centre wrote on Twitter: "Last night our @GMPSpecials worked with our [traffic PCSOs] to combat antisocial driving in the city centre. In three hours: 17 drivers using their phone, nine with no seatbelt, two illegal number plates, one driver inhaling NOS, one car seized for no insurance and four cars removed their window tints."

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