A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.
Essex Police officers were deployed across Colchester over the weekend as part of the force's Operation Roadrunner.
The scheme is designed to help reduce the number of casualties on the roads and act on concerns raised by councillors and residents.
During the patrols, officers used a range of tactics to ensure the laws of the roads were being adhered to by drivers, issuing six fixed penalty notices for a range of driving offences.
Words of advice were also given to six other drivers over the course of the weekend operation.
While in Tesco, in Highwoods, the police also discovered a loud 45-year-old car which was being driving at inappropriate speeds.
After preventing the car from being driven out of the car park, officers established it was in an extremely poor condition, so decided to refer the find to the roads policing unit.
Following the arrival of the team, the vehicle was deemed unsafe and not roadworthy and can now no longer be driven on the road.
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