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WATCH: Drunken Eddie Stobart driver reverses TEN TIMES up M6 Toll

This shocking video shows the terrifying moment a lorry driver reversed 10 TIMES the wrong way on the M6 Toll while nearly three times the drink-drive limit.

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The Eddie Stobart lorry zig-zags across all three lanes of the northbound carriageway as passing drivers swerve out of the way.

Lorries and cars miss the truck by inches as driver Frantisek Formanek snakes back and forth over and over.

Amazingly, he didn't hit anyone. But the 56-year-old managed to reverse 800 metres before officers from Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) arrived.

The Czech Republic driver blew a breath sample of 93 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath - nearly three times the legal limit.

Formanek had been on a delivery from Eastern Europe to the UK when caught by police near Norton Canes at 11.30pm on March 1.

He was immediately sacked by Eddie Stobart and has now been jailed.

At Stafford Crown Court, he was jailed for six months for dangerous driving, four months for drink driving, to run concurrently. He was handed a 12 month driving ban requiring him to take a test to regain his licence.

Eddie Stobart's chief operating officer David Pickering said: "Following a very swift internal investigation into this incident, the driver was identified as part of our European operation on a delivery from the Czech Republic to the UK.

"He was immediately dismissed. We have fully supported the Central Motorway Police Group in their investigation and completely endorse their quick and decisive action in response to this individual's appalling and criminal actions."

Chief Inspector Jed White, from CMPG, said: "On this occasion this driver was clearly putting lives at risk, including his own.

"The sentence imposed by the court is to be welcomed."

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