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Stunning video captures the driver using her steering wheel to prop up her reading material while driving from Daresbury towards Wirral and North Wales.

And to make matters worse the brazen driver appears to stick her middle finger up at an overtaking car filming her audacious actions.

The crazy footage was captured at around 10.30am on Sunday morning.

The woman was first spotted a mile before J11 for Daresbury, heading westbound, all the way up to J14 for Hapsford, near the turning for Cheshire Oaks.

The stunned passenger who captured the video said the driver kept crossing between lanes one and two as she read, drove and swore at the same time.

They said: “She sat with one hand on her book and the other putting the finger up pushing against her window but still looking down at her book. This went on for a mile as she weaved from side to side over the white lines.

“The book looked like it was the Bible. I couldn’t believe it!”

The incident has been reported to Cheshire Police who confirmed they are investigating.

A spokesman for the force said: “We were called at 10.37 on August 7 to reports of a woman driving along the M56 while reading a book. Investigations are being carried out.”

In the past few years, crashes along that stretch of motorway have doubled. From 2010-2014, there were 16 serious or fatal incidents - eight of which were in 2014 alone.