Driver's bizarre birth-date claim after being stopped by police
13:22, 09 January 2022
updated: 13:40, 09 January 2022
A 20-year-old driver claimed to have been born in 1954 after being pulled over by police for traffic offences.
Officers from the Roads Policing Unit stopped a BMW on Friday night after observing it travel along Park Avenue, Gravesend with only one working headlight.
The team later posted about the incident on Twitter stating: "sighted this vehicle in Gravesend, once stopped the 20 year old driver tried to say he was born in 1954….even with the best moisturiser we weren’t believing that, transpires #NoLicence & #NoInsurance, vehicle #Seized."
Kent Police confirmed the driver had been found to have no licence or insurance, and the 20-year-old from Gravesend was given a traffic offence report.
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