Trucker flashed at female police staff on motorway

A truck driver driver exposed himself on the M1 motorway to a woman driver who turned out to be a police worker. Peter Munson was travelling at 50 to 60mph when he repeatedly pulled alongside the woman and her colleague. He smiled and waved then followed them as they swapped lanes to pick up the A46.

The woman driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court: "As I looked over he was grinning and gestured toward his lap. I turned straight and looked ahead and I said to my colleague 'I can't believe what he's doing now'. She said 'Are you joking?'" The woman said she was shocked. "Obviously we are females on the motorway and somebody doing that sort of lewd behaviour is not what you expect when you are driving, so it puts us in a doubly dangerous situation."



The offence happened at the junction of the M1 and A46 in April last year. The women, both civilian employees of Notts Police, had been to Leicestershire. Munson, 42, had bought his yellow flatbed truck from Leicestershire the same day and was driving it home to New Ollerton. After he exposed himself the women showed their police identification cards and he immediately dropped back.

He was traced through his registration number but denied even waving when interviewed. He was found guilty of exposure after a trial at Loughborough Magistrates' Court. In a statement read to the court, the woman passenger said: "I was getting worried because he seemed to be concentrating on us rather than driving." Munson will be sentenced on June 10 after reports have been prepared.