WATCH: New footage shows lorry driving wrong way on M6 Toll

New footage has emerged of the moments when a lorry drove the wrong way down the M6 Toll in the Midlands.

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The Express & Star told earlier this week how foreign nationals Nicusor Paun and Vasile Radoescu were sentenced at Stafford Crown Court, where it emerged they swapped positions while driving south on the northbound carriageway of the pay-to-use motorway.

Both men, visiting the UK on work from abroad, were convicted of dangerous driving and will have to take an advanced test before being allowed back on the roads.

Now, Staffordshire Police have released footage of the incident.

Paun, aged 34, was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for 18 months and handed a two-year road ban.

He was also ordered to pay £180 in criminal costs.

Radoescue, aged 39, was given a four-month jail term suspended for 18 months and a was disqualified from driving for 12 months.

He racked up £900 in criminal costs.

Officers from the Central Motorway Policing Group stopped the pair near T4 of the M6 Toll, near Shenstone, on July 12.