Van breaching driving offences pulled over after child spotted on passenger's lap
A van driver was pulled over by police after being spotted with a child sitting on the lap of a passenger.
Officers from the Staffordshire Police Road Policing Unit stopped the van in Rugeley on Sunday after seeing the child, who was not in a car seat or restrained safely.
The officers then subsequently discovered that the driver had no licence and that the van had no MOT, no working wing mirrors, bald tyres and a cracked windscreen.
A spokesman for Cannock Police said: "Officers from the RPU stopped this vehicle in Rugeley today after noticing a child sitting on the passenger's lap.
"Turns out that the driver also had no license, the van had no MOT, no working wing mirrors, bald tyres and a cracked windscreen."
The vehicle was seized and the driver charged with numerous offences.
