Drink driver caught risking nine-year-old passenger's life on the M1 at Fox Valley in Sheffield

A man in his thirties who was driving with a nine-year-old passenger has been found to be nearly four times over the limit as he swerved across a major motorway.

South Yorkshire Police said: "On Friday 6 December around 4pm, we received multiple reports of concern that a driver was suspected to be over the drink drive limit, swerving across the carriageway on the M1."

Officers from the Proactive Roads Policing Team stopped the Land Rover close to Fox Valley in Sheffield.

• South Yorkshire Police say it has released this footage to remind people of the dangers of drink driving

The driver was breathalysed at the roadside but failed to provide a sample.

He blew 125 on the scale in custody.

Roads Policing Inspector Matt Collings said: "I’d like to say a huge thank you to the members of the public who called our control room alerting us to the driver.

"We thankfully will never know the outcome of the journey if we wouldn’t have arrived, and I thank you for that.

"You can’t be responsible for other people’s actions, but you can your own. Drink and drug driving is reckless. You not only risk your own life but that of other people’s, innocent road users."

The driver has been charged in connection to the incident and will appear before court in January.

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