Footage has been released showing a drunk lorry driver reversing along a busy UK motorway forcing cars to dodge his truck.

CCTV charts the faltering and dangerous progress of Czech man Frantisek Formanek as he wove across the M6 Toll in Staffordshire on March 1.

Fellow lorry drivers were forced to veer out of the 56-year-old's way, flashing their lights, as he backed up 800 metres in the wrong direction on the northbound side of the motorway at Norton Canes.

The video has been released by Staffordshire Police after Formanek was jailed for six months for dangerous driving, and four months for being drunk at the wheel.

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