Now if you squint, in one of those cars in the distance… (Archive picture: Getty)

Just because there is no law specifically mentioning it, that doesn’t mean it is legal to masturbate while driving.

But one man seems to have thought, ‘Hey, why not?’

The unidentified driver from Southampton, in his fifties, was caught pleasuring himself while driving his BMW along the M40 near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, where there is a 70mph speed limit.

Unluckily for him, police in an unmarked car were on patrol on a week-long crack down on ‘distracted drivers’.


A spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed the man was fined after he admitted ‘carrying out an indecent act’ at the wheel when he was stopped by patrolling officers last week.

Police ran a two week operation to catch distracted drivers (Archive picture: Getty)

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He may have been the most outrageous, but he wasn’t the only motorist they caught out.

They also found another man reading a novel at the wheel (come on, no John Grisham or even Charles Dickens is worth your life).

And they stacked up a massive 147 drivers using mobile phones over the course of the crack down called Operation Tramline which ran between June 6 and 10.

In total, Thames Valley and Hampshire Constabularies fined 187 drivers between £60 and £100, and gave some additional points on their licences.

Hundreds of spiders that can grow as big as rats released in UKSergeant Paul Diamond said: ‘Most of the offenders are not horrible criminals, they are often kind and decent people but they just don’t realise the consequences of their actions not just to the victims but on their own lives and to the security of their jobs and family.

‘The irony is that most of the people we stop agree with what we are doing, so why do they do it?’